We study how production networks adapt when natural disasters affect the reliability of a firm in the network. Affected firms extend more trade credit to their customers, especially if these customers are important and would be difficult to replace. The suppliers of affected firms appear to...

Using textual analysis of earnings conference calls, we quantify firm level risk arising from the reliability of the supply chain from 2002 to 2020. Our proxy for perceived supply chain risk exhibits cross-sectional and time-series variation that aligns with reasonable priors and is...