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What Can Stockouts Tell Us About Inflation? Evidence from Online Micro Data

Cavallo, Alberto; Kryvtsov, Oleksiy - 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...

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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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Risks and Global Supply Chains : What We Know and What We Need to Know

Baldwin, Richard E.; 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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The Aggregate Effects of Global and Local Supply Chain Disruptions : 2020–2022

Alessandria, George A.; Khan, Shafaat; Khederlarian, Armen - 2023

We study the aggregate effects of supply-chain disruptions in the post-pandemic period in a heterogeneous-firm, general equilibrium model with input-output linkages and a rich set of supply chain frictions: uncertain shipping delays, fixed order costs, and storage costs. Firms optimally hold...

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Demand Shocks and Supply Chain Resilience : An Agent Based Modelling Approach and Application to the Potato Supply Chain

Lu, Liang; Nguyen, Ruby; Rahman, Md Mamunur; Winfree, Jason - 2021

The food supply chain has experienced major disruptions from both demand and supply sides during the Covid-19 pandemic. While some consequences such as food waste are directly caused by the disruption due to supply chain inefficiency, others are indirectly caused by a change in consumer’s...

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From Scarcity to Abundance : Government and Private Initiatives to Manage the Allocation of N95 Masks in the U.S. During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Joskow, Paul L. - 2022

This paper examines the structure, behavior and performance of the N95 respirator market in the U.S. before and during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-early 2022). It focuses on the behavior and performance of government and private sector organizations in the allocation of scarce supplies of N95...

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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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