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Labor Dynamics and Supply Chain Disruption in Food Manufacturing
Ramsey, A. Ford; Goodwin, Barry K.; Haley, Mildred A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Food manufacturing and processing is an important link between agricultural producers and consumers in the agricultural … supply chain. The food manufacturing sector in the United States is both increasingly mechanized and increasingly … concentrated. Consequently, labor risks in food manufacturing have changed over time with changes in industry structure. Labor …
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Firms, Failures, and Fluctuations : The Macroeconomics of Supply Chain Disruptions
Acemoglu, Daron - 2020
This paper studies how firm failures and the resulting disruptions to supply chains can amplify negative shocks. We develop a non-competitive model where customized supplier-customer relations increase productivity, and the relationship-specific surplus generated between firms and their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481420
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Supply Chain Resilience : Evidence from Indian Firms
Khanna, Gaurav; Morales, Nicolas; Pandalai-Nayar, Nitya - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013462737
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Exchange Rate Volatility and Global Food Supply Chains
Steinbach, Sandro - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper analyzes the impact of exchange rate risk on global food supply chains. Although the theoretical literature … for a balanced panel of 159 countries for 2001 to 2017. I study the relationship for 781 agricultural and food products … a primary source of international risk exposure for global food supply chains …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012616612
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Risks and global supply chains : What we know and what we need to know
Baldwin, Richard E.; Freeman, Rebecca - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
the cost-resiliency trade-off. We propose the risk-versus-reward framework from portfolio theory as a good way to evaluate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660121
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Supply Chain Risk : Changes in Supplier Composition and Vertical Integration
Ersahin, Nuri; Giannetti, Mariassunta; Huang, Ruidi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Using textual analysis of earnings conference calls, we quantify firms' supply chain risk and its sources. Our proxy for supply chain risk exhibits large cross-sectional and time-series variation that aligns with reasonable priors and is unprecedently high during the Covid-19 pandemic. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250152
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COVID-19 and the Demand for Online Food Shopping Services : Empirical Evidence from Taiwan
Chang, Hung-Hao - 2020
We investigate how the coronavirus pandemic affected the demand for online food shopping services using data from the … largest agri-food e-commerce platform in Taiwan. We find that an additional confirmed case of COVID-19 increased sales by 5 … most, which benefited small farms over agribusinesses. Online food shopping was highly responsive to COVID-19 media …
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Price Discounts and Cheapflation During the Post-Pandemic Inflation Surge
Cavallo, Alberto; Kryvtsov, Oleksiy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
inflation burden. We use micro price data for food products sold by 91 large multi-channel retailers in ten countries between …
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What Can Stockouts Tell Us About Inflation? Evidence from Online Micro Data
Cavallo, Alberto; Kryvtsov, Oleksiy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We use a detailed micro dataset on product availability to construct a direct high-frequency measure of consumer product shortages during the 2020-2021 pandemic. We document a widespread multi-fold rise in shortages in nearly all sectors early in the pandemic. Over time, the composition of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012629429
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Concentration and Resilience in the U.S. Meat Supply Chains
Ma, Meilin; Lusk, Jayson L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
, and thus food security, depends on the exogenous risk of shutdown and the level of output desired; no horizontal structure … food supply chain and highlight that there are no easy solutions to improving the short-run resilience by changing the …
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