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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

Reliable supply chains are crucial to the productivity and economic growth of nations. Despite the recognition of its importance, formal research on the contribution of supply chain logistics, including the relative impacts across different logistics dimensions, is less. The importance of supply...

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Breaking bad : supply chain disruptions in a streamlined agent based model

Delli Gatti, Domenico; Grugni, Elisa - 2021

We explore the macro-financial consequences of the disruption of a supply chain in an agent based framework characterized by two networks, a credit network connecting banks and firms and a production network connecting upstream and down-stream firms. We consider two scenarios. In the first one,...

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Labor market effects of global supply chain disruptions

Ulate, Mauricio; Vasquez, Jose; Zarate, Roman D. - 2023

We examine the labor market consequences of recent global supply chain disruptions induced by COVID-19. Specifically, we consider a temporary increase in international trade costs similar to the one observed during the pandemic and analyze its effects on labor market outcomes using a...

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The causal effects of global supply chain disruptions on macroeconomic outcomes : evidence and theory

Bai, Xiwen; Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Li, Yiliang; … - 2024

We study the causal effects and policy implications of global supply chain disruptions. We construct a new index of supply chain disruptions from the mandatory automatic identification system data of container ships, developing a novel spatial clustering algorithm that determines real-time...

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Container trade and the U.S. recovery

Kilian, Lutz; Nomikos, Nikos K.; Zhou, Xiaoqing - 2021

Since the 1970s, exports and imports of manufactured goods have been the engine of international trade and much of that trade relies on container shipping. This paper introduces a new monthly index of the volume of container trade to and from North America. Incorporating this index into a...

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The domestic segment of global supply chains in China under state capitalism

Tang, Heiwai; Wang, Fei; Wang, Zhi - 2014

This paper proposes methods to incorporate firm heterogeneity in the standard IO-table based approach to portray the domestic segment of global value chains in a country. Using Chinese firm census data for both manufacturing and service sectors, along with constrained optimization techniques, we...

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Trade linkages and the globalisation of inflation in Asia and the Pacific

Auer, Raphael A.; Mehrotra, Aaron N. - 2014

Some observers argue that increased real integration has led to greater co-movement of prices internationally. We examine the evidence for cross-border price spillovers among economies participating in the pan-Asian cross-border production networks. Starting with country-level data, we find that...

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Corporate Social Responsibility along the global value chain

Herkenhoff, Philipp; Krautheim, Sebastian; Semrau, Finn Ole - 2021

Firms are under increasing pressure to meet stakeholders’ demand for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) along their global value chains. We study the incentives for and investments in CSR at different stages of the production process. We analyze a model of sequential production with...

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Tasks, occupations, and slowbalization : on the limits of fragmentation

Brakman, Steven; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2022

Following the trade collapse in 2009, Globalization has recovered but the growth rate slowed down compared to the … preceding period of Hyper Globalization. The persistence of this slowdown is remarkable. We argue that increased awareness of …, while remaining tractable. From an empirical point of view, the model explains both, the period of Hyper Globalization and …

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Growing like China : firm performance and global production line position

Chor, Davin; Manova, Kalina; Yu, Zhihong - 2020

Global value chains have fundamentally transformed international trade and development in recent decades. We use matched firm-level customs and manufacturing survey data, together with Input-Output tables for China, to examine how Chinese firms position themselves in global production lines and...

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