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Using two novel administrative datasets containing monthly sales and input-sourcing information for plants and products with regional heterogeneity within India, we find that the inter- to intra-region trade ratio declines sharply after the COVID-19 induced lockdown in March 2020. The ratio...
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and expose firms to significant risk. In this paper, we use linked export-import data from Bangladesh to provide the first … driving the 33% fall in Bangladesh’s exports during the first half of 2020. The export reduction was instead driven by an …
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There is mounting evidence of supply chains distress across different industrial ecosystems affecting the production capacity of firms and indirectly creating price pressures. At the same time, the need of policy makers to monitor and understand the underlying factors is also more pressing. This...
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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 Covid-19 pandemic has caused major disruptions in international trade and has raised concerns about adverse effects on international supply chains. Using a unique establishment survey matched with administrative data from Germany, we provide novel evidence on how establishments have adjusted...
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Measures devised to quantify value chain position have been used increasingly in recent years. While the constructs underlying these measures are meaningful, this paper identifies an overlooked implementation problem. Proposed algorithms have been applied as though the underlying data represent...
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benefit from trade facilitation. We find that firms of all sizes export more in response to improved trade facilitation. Our …
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Containment measures of COVID-19 have generated a chain of supply and demand shocks around the globe with heterogeneous fallout across industries and countries. We quantify their transmission via foreign trade with a focus on the euro area where deep firms integration within regional supply...
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with input-output linkages to gauge the effects of this adverse supply shock in China on the global economy through … international trade and global value chains (GVCs). We find moderate welfare losses in most countries outside of China, while a few … to the Covid-19 shock in China is reduced by 40% in the median country. In several other countries, the effects are …
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with input-output linkages to gauge the effects of this adverse supply shock in China on the global economy through … international trade and global value chains (GVCs). We find moderate welfare losses in most countries outside of China, while a few … the Covid-19 shock in China is reduced by 40% in the median country. In several other countries, the effects aremagnified …
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