Ari Van Assche

Associate Professor
Department of International Business

HEC Montréal

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Working Papers

 “Is Our World Going to Get A Whole Lot Smaller?” (with Byron Gangnes and Alyson Ma), CIRANO Scientific Papers 2011s-31, February 2011.

“Why Do Developing Country Multinational Firms Find Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid?” (with Alyson Ma), January 2011.

The Role of Trade Costs in Global Production Networks: Evidence from China’s Processing Trade Regime” (with Alyson Ma), World Bank Policy Working Paper No. 5490, December 2010.

Institutions and Multinational Ownership Strategy” (with Galina Schwartz), CIRANO Scientific Papers 2008s-07, March 2008.

"Scarcity of User Information and the Link between Computer Security and Reliability," (with Galina Schwartz and Peter Honeyman), February 2007.

"From Malthus to Solow: A New Classical Approach to Induced Innovation" (with James Roumasset), April 2005.

Modular Production Networks in IT: The Nexus between Management and Economics Research” (with Byron Gangnes), Singapore Management University Economics and Statistics Working Paper Series No. 21-2004, October 2004.

Journal Articles

“HIV/AIDS and Time Allocation in Rural Malawi” (with Simona Bignami-Van Assche, Philippe Anglewicz, Peter Fleming and Catherine van de Ruit), Demographic Research, forthcoming.

"Electronics Production Upgrading: Is China Exceptional?” (with Byron Gangnes), Applied Economics Letters 17(5), March 2010, pp. 477-482.

"Input Specificity and Global Sourcing," (with Galina Schwartz), Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 24(1), March 2010, pp. 69-85.

“Global Production Networks and China’s Processing Trade” (with Alyson Ma and Chang Hong), Journal of Asian Economics 20(6), November 2009, pp. 640-654.

“China’s Trade in Crisis” (with Alyson Ma), AIB Insights 9(2), October 2009, pp. 11-15.

When China Sneezes, Asia Catches a Cold: Effects of China’s Export Decline in the Realm of the Global Economic Crisis” (with Alyson Ma), Bureau of European Policy Advisers Monthly Brief Issue 27 (Special Issue on Trade Policy), June 2009, pp. 32-36.

Modularity and the Organization of International Production,” Japan and the World Economy, 20, August 2008, pp. 353-368.

HIV Does not Disproprotionately Affect the Poor in Sub-Saharan Africa” (with Vinod Mishra, Simona Bignami-Van Assche, Robert Greener, Martin Vaessen, Rathavuth Hong, Peter Ghys, Ties Boerma, Shane Khan and Shea Rutstein), AIDS 27 (Suppl 7) December 2007, pp. S17-S28.

"Regulation, Market Structure and Service Trade Liberalization" (with Denise Konan), Economic Modelling 24:6, November 2007, pp. 895-923.

Fragmentation and East Asia’s Information Technology Trade” (with Carl Bonham and Byron Gangnes), Applied Economics 39:2, February 2007, pp. 215-228.

China’s Electronics Exports: Just A Standard Trade Theory Case”, Policy Options, Vol. 27, No. 6, July/August 2006, pp. 79-82.

Book Chapters

“What Countries Become Final Assembly Platforms?” forthcoming.

“China’s Role in Global Production Networks” (with Alyson Ma), Chapter in Aaron Sydor (Ed.), Global Value Chains: Impacts and Implications - Trade Policy Research Special Edition, forthcoming.

 “Global Production Networks in the Post-Crisis Era” (with Alyson Ma). In M. Haddad and B. Shepherd (eds.), Managing Openness: Trade and Outward-Oriented Growth after the Crisis, World Bank, Washington, D.C., forthcoming.

Global Production Networks in Electronics and Intra-Asian Trade” (with Byron Gangnes). In T. Henckel (ed.), Sustaining Growth and Development in East Asia, Routledge, London, forthcoming.

China and the Future of Asian Technology Trade” (with Byron Gangnes). Chapter 14 in Linda Yueh (Ed.), The Future of Asian Trade and Growth, Routledge, London, December 2009, pp. 343-369.

“Compétitivité internationale de la Chine: Une réalité à réévaluer” (with Chang Hong and Veerle Slootmaekers), Le Québec à l’heure de la mondialisation, CIRANO, Montréal, October 2008, pp. 37-54. English version published as “China’s International Competitiveness: Reassessing the Evidence,” Licos Discussion Paper 205/2008, April 2008. 

V6 Documentation - Chapter 11.Q: Tunisia.(with Denise Konan) In B. Dimaranan (Ed.), Global Trade, Assistance, and Production: The GTAP 6 Data Base, Center for Global Trade Analysis, Purdue University, 2006.

Other Publications

Une crainte exagérée,” Opinion piece on the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Incident in La Presse, June 1, 2009.

Review of Services and Economic Development in the Asia-Pacific,” by P.W. Daniels and J.W. Harrington, Asia-Pacific Economic Literature 23:1, May 2009, p. 117.

Are We Making a Dragon Out of a Dragon Fly? China’s Role in Global Production NetworksRapport Bourgogne/Burgundy Report 2009RB03, CIRANO, January 2009.

Review of Harnessing Globalization: A Review of East Asian Case Studies,” by Henry Y. Wan, Jr. (Ed.), Asia-Pacific Economic Literature 21:2, November 2007, pp. 57-58.

Doit-on réellement craindre le péril jaune? Opinion piece on China’s competitive threat in La Presse, December 11, 2006.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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