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Supply chain reliability and international economic growth : impacts of disruptions like COVID-19
Goel, Rajeev K.; Saunoris, James W.; Goel, Srishti S. - 2020
importance, formal research on the contribution of supply chain logistics, including the relative impacts across different … logistics dimensions, is less. The importance of supply chains has been recently been brought to the forefront in the wake of … examine the relative effects of the different aspects of supply chain logistics on economic growth. Placing the empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012219347
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Prices, schedules, and passenger welfare in multi-service transportation systems
Billette de Villemeur, Étienne; Vinella, Annalisa - 2019
We consider a multi-service transportation system in which passengers are heterogeneous along two dimensions, namely ideal departure time and value of time, leading to both horizontal and vertical differentiation. We investigate the behavior of passengers, and assess how service pricing and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012103986
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Incentives through inventory control in supply chains
Zhan, Qu; Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - 2017
The paper shows that taking inventory control out of the hands of competitive or exclusive retailers and assigning it to a manufacturer increases the value of a supply chain especially for goods whose demand is highly volatile. This is because doing so solves incentive distortions that arise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742575
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Ending Covid-19 vaccine apartheid through vaccine donations : the influence of supply chains
Goel, Rajeev K.; Nelson, Michael A. - 2023
supply chains reduced donations. The impacts of corruption and logistics performance likely persisted from pre-COVID times …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014393223
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Greasing the wheels of international commerce : how services facilitate firms' international sourcing
Debaere, Peter; Görg, Holger; Raff, Horst - 2010
We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of manufacturing firms to source materials from abroad. To guide our empirical analysis we develop a monopolistic-competition model of the materials sourcing decisions of heterogeneous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003937283
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Where is the value added? : trade liberalization and production networks
Aichele, Rahel; Heiland, Inga - 2016
theory-based measures for production networks from a multi-sector gravity model with inter-sectoral linkages to analyze the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517926
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Going deep : the trade and welfare effects of TTIP
Aichele, Rahel; Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Heiland, Inga - 2014
Since July 2013, the EU and the US have been negotiating a preferential trade agreement (PTA), the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). We use a multi-country, multi-industry Ricardian trade model with national and international input-output linkages to quantify its potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010469287
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The network origins of the gains from trade
Bosker, Maarten; Westbrock, Bastian - 2019
In this paper, we develop a network perspective on the welfare gains from trade in today's internationally fragmented supply chains. Towards this end, we study a Ricardian trade model featuring trade in final and intermediate products, and introduce a novel comparative statics approach to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011986141
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Supplier search and re-matching in global sourcing : theory and evidence from China
Defever, Fabrice; Fischer, Christian; Südekum, Jens - 2017
in line with the predictions of our theory. In particular, we find that the share of short-term collaborations is higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011754216
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A model of supply chain finance
Hu, Bo; Watanabe, Makoto; Zhang, Jun - 2023
This article develops a model in which an intermediary uses a supply chain finance (SCF) program to fund suppliers. The SCF program pools liquidity from suppliers and meanwhile provides immediate payment to suppliers with pressing liquidity needs. We show that the intermediary optimally selects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014431335