To further strengthen academic exchanges between CIWTO and other institutions in the field of global value chain, on the afternoon of June 9, Dr. Lu Yue, at the invitation of Nankai University, participated in series of academic activities for the 30th anniversary of establishment of Nankai Institute of International Economics, and gave a presentation on "The Effect of Global Value Chain Embeddedness on Productivity: An Analysis of its Impact and Mechanism". This event was hosted by Professor Jiang Dianchun, Director of the Institute for International Economics at Nankai University. Professor Sheng Bin, Associate Professor Shi Bingzhan, Associate Professor Wen Dongwei, Associate Professor Wan Zhihong, Associate Professor Li Lei, Associate Professor Zheng Zhaoyang, Assistant Professor Jin Xiaoting and a number of PhD students at the School of Economics participated in this event.

In the report, Dr. Lu Yue pointed out that the productivity effect of the global value chain embeddedness is the frontier of current international trade research, but existing research lacks sufficient discussion on the extent of the effect and its mechanism. The paper utilizes firm-level data from "Annual Surveys of Industrial Firms from the National Bureau of Statistics of China", "Chinese Customs Transaction-level Trade Data" from 2000 to 2006, and the merged dataset of "World Input-Output Database" (WIOD) and "Chinese Manufacturing Firm Database" from 2001 to 2011, and investigates the productivity improvement effect of the global value chain embeddedness, in the end, concluding that participation in the global value chain can effectively improve the productivity of firms.

After the presentation, the professors and students present had an in-depth conversation on issues such as the global value chain and China with Lu Yue. Lu Yue took everyone's questions seriously. Finally, the professors and students at Nankai International Institute of Economic thanked again for Lu Yue's visit and thesis report.

Translator: DONG Yue Revisor: HOU Jingnan