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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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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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Global Supply Chains in the Pandemic

Bonadio, Barthélémy - 2020

We study the role of global supply chains in the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on GDP growth for 64 countries. We discipline the labor supply shock across sectors and countries using the fraction of work in the sector that can be done from home, interacted with the stringency with which...

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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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Is the Focus on Food Deserts Fruitless? Retail Access and Food Purchases Across the Socioeconomic Spectrum

Handbury, Jessie - 2015

Using novel data describing the healthfulness of household food purchases and the retail landscapes consumers face, we …

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Do Consumer Price Subsidies Really Improve Nutrition?

Jensen, Robert T. - 2014

Many developing countries use food-price subsidies or price controls to improve the nutrition of the poor. However …

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The Impact of Retaliatory Tariffs on Agricultural and Food Trade

Carter, Colin Andre; Steinbach, Sandro - 2022

This paper analyzes the short-run trade effects of retaliatory tariffs against agriculture and food exports from the … United States. The results indicate that these tariffs caused a substantial decline in U.S. agriculture and food exports and …

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Implications of Stochastic Transmission Rates for Managing Pandemic Risks

Hong, Harrison G. - 2020

epidemic model and link valuations to infections via an asset-pricing framework with vaccines. Infections lower earnings growth …

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

Baldwin, Richard E.; Freeman, Rebecca - 2022

cost-resiliency trade-off. We propose the risk-versus-reward framework from portfolio theory as a good way to evaluate …

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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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