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Productivity growth has declined in most advanced economies in the past two decades and there are signs that the pace of global value chain (GVC) integration has slowed in the post-crisis period. This paper explores the role of GVCs - international trade in intermediate inputs - for multi-factor...
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labour markets, better access to finance, stronger contract enforcement and simplified export procedures, appears to be …
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This paper shows that the ancestry composition shaped by century-long immigration to the US can explain the current structure of global supply chain networks. Using an instrumental variable strategy, combined with a novel dataset that links firm-to-firm global supply chain information with a US...
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This paper considers the evolution of global transportation usage over the past half century and its implications for supply chains. Transportation usage per unit of real output has more than doubled as costs decreased by a third. Participation of emerging economies in world trade and...
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We characterize what features make supply chains more resilient. Using new data on the universe of firm-to-firm transactions from an Indian state, we identify firms with larger supplier risk following the Covid-19 lockdowns. Using an event-study design we find firms with suppliers in...
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decline in import growth. We then construct measures of export exposure to import tariffs by linking tariffs paid by importing …
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bottlenecks. Other measures like export restrictions exacerbate instability. The concept of food systems resilience goes further …
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global input-output data, we show that US exposure to foreign suppliers, and particularly to China, is 'hidden' in the sense …
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This paper empirically examines the effects of financial crises on the organization of production of multinational enterprises. We construct a panel of European multinational networks from 2003 through 2015. We use as a financial shock the increase in risk premia between August 2007 and July...
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Using the micro-level data on China’s export enterprises from 2005 to 2013, this paper discusses the impact of … industrial robots on the quality upgrading of export products from two aspects: the change of enterprises’ costs and the … export products’ quality upgrading, but the enterprises whose robot applications exceed the U-shaped inflection point only …
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