TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grossman,Gene M.
AU  - Helpman,Elhanan
AU  - Sabal,Alejandro
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Resilience in Vertical Supply Chains
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
KW  - Firm Behavior: Theory
KW  - jelc
KW  - Externalities
N1  - September 2023; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - Forward-looking investments determine the resilience of firms' supply chains. Such investments confer externalities on other firms in the production network. We compare the equilibrium and optimal allocations in a general equilibrium model with an arbitrary number of vertical production tiers. Our model features endogenous investments in resilience, endogenous formation of supply links, and sequential bargaining over quantities and payments between firms in successive tiers. We derive policies that implement the first-best allocation, allowing for subsidies to input purchases, network formation, and investments in resilience. The first-best policies depend only on production function parameters of the pertinent tier. When subsidies to transactions are infeasible, the second-best subsidies for resilience and network formation depend on production function parameters throughout the network, and subsidies are larger upstream than downstream whenever the bargaining weights of buyers are non-increasing along the chain
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w31739
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w31739
ER  -