Global supply chains reshaped international trade since the 1980s. Their role in explaining the trade collapse that followed the financial crisis of September 2008 was determinant. Because manufacture production is internationally fragmented, adverse external shocks affect firms not only through...

The recent economic downturn in South Asia in the wake of the global financial crisis lowers the economic growth potential and leads to additional economic and social hardship. In response to these challenges, this paper advocates structural change as the inclusive new source of growth....

This paper empirically examines the effects of financial crises on the organization of production of multinational enterprises. We construct a panel of European multinational networks from 2003 through 2015. We use as a financial shock the increase in risk premia between August 2007 and July...