• Motivations • Measures of GVC Participation, Length and Position ▪ Decompose GDP and final goods production by country/industry to identify GVC related and unrelated production activities ▪ Intuition behind the derivation of these indexes • Estimation Results ▪ Why these new GVC indexes are better? ▪ Has GVC become longer or shorter over time? ▪ Can these new indexes help to quantify the roles of GVC in the economic shocks of recent global financial crisis • Conclusion