TY - BOOK AU - Ksoll,Christopher AU - Macchiavello,Rocco AU - Morjaria,Ameet ED - National Bureau of Economic Research. TI - Electoral Violence and Supply Chain Disruptions in Kenya's Floriculture Industry T2 - NBER working paper series PY - 2021/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - National Bureau of Economic Research N1 - September 2021; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers N2 - Violent conflicts, particularly at election times in Africa, are a common cause of instability and economic disruption. This paper studies how firms react to electoral violence using the case of Kenyan flower exporters during the 2008 post-election violence as an example. The violence induced a large negative supply shock that reduced exports primarily through workers' absence and had heterogeneous effects: larger firms and those with direct contractual relationships in export markets suffered smaller production and losses of workers. On the demand side, global buyers were not able to shift sourcing to Kenyan exporters located in areas not directly affected by the violence nor to neighboring Ethiopian suppliers. Consistent with difficulties in insuring against supply-chain risk disruptions caused by electoral violence, firms in direct contractual relationships ramp up shipments just before the subsequent 2013 presidential election to mitigate risk UR - https://www.nber.org/papers/w29297 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w29297 ER -