The process of globalization in recent decades has led to a deep transformation of the world economy, broadening the range of economic activities that are possible to be internationally traded. Technological changes and other factors affecting trade costs provide new grounds for specialization. Allowing for further fragmentation of production processes, the last wave of globalization has spread to a diverse set of activities. This phenomenon has allowed for the emergence of the so-called Global Value Chains (GVC) bringing the participation of a large number of suppliers around the world into the production of goods and the provision of services. In particular, this phenomenon is stronger in modern manufactures that incorporate a high level ...