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Risks and Global Supply Chains : What We Know and What We Need to Know
Baldwin, Richard; Freeman, Rebecca - 2022
Recent supply disruptions catapulted the issue of risk in global supply chains (GSCs) to the top of policy agendas and created the impression that shortages would have been less severe if GSCs were either shorter and more domestic, or more diversified. But is this right? We start our answer by...
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Supply Chain Resilience : Evidence from Indian Firms
Khanna, Gaurav; Morales, Nicolas; Pandalai-Nayar, Nitya - 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...
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Firms, Failures, and Fluctuations : The Macroeconomics of Supply Chain Disruptions
Acemoglu, Daron; Tahbaz-Salehi, Alireza - 2022
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...
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National Cultures and Soccer Violence
Miguel, Edward - 2010
Can some acts of violence be explained by a society's quot;culturequot;? Scholars have found it hard to empirically disentangle the effects of culture, legal institutions, and poverty in driving violence. We address this problem by exploiting a natural experiment offered by the presence of...
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Monetary Policy in Japan, Germany and the United States : Does One Size Fit All?
Chinn, Menzie David; Dooley, Michael P. - 2021
We study the post-war evidence for Japan to see if the same specification for both the economy and the monetary policy … rule is useful for understanding Japan's economy and monetary policy. A recurrent theme in the literature on Japanese … that, with minor adjustments, the same specification provides a useful framework for understanding monetary policy in Japan …
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Why Do U.S. Firms Hold so Much More Cash than They Used to?
Bates, Thomas W. - 2010
The average cash to assets ratio for U.S. industrial firms increases by 129% from 1980 to 2004. Because of this increase in the average cash ratio, American firms at the end of the sample period can pay back their debt obligations with their cash holdings, so that the average firm has no...
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Derivatives Usage in Risk Management by Us and German Non-Financial Firms : a Comparative Survey
Bodnar, Gordon M. - 2001
be driven by the greater importance of financial accounting statements in Germany than the US and stricter German …
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Fuel Tax Incidence and Supply Conditions
Marion, Justin G. - 2011
The incidence of taxes on consumers and producers plays a central role in evaluating energy tax policy, yet the literature testing the main predictions of the tax incidence model is sparse. In this paper, we examine the pass-through rate of state gasoline and diesel taxes to retail prices, and...
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Gravity Chains : Estimating Bilateral Trade Flows When Parts and Components Trade is Important
Baldwin, Richard - 2011
Trade is measured on a gross sales basis while GDP is measured on a net sales basis, i.e. value added. The rapid internationalisation of production in the last two decades has meant that gross trade flows are increasingly unrepresentative of the value added flows. This fact has important...
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Production Chains
Levine, David K. - 2010
More advanced technologies demand higher degrees of specialization - and longer chains of production connecting raw inputs to final outputs. Longer production chains are subject to a "weakest link" effect: they are more fragile and more prone to failure. Optimal chain length is determined by the...
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