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 article analyses the role of international supply chains as transmission channels of a financial shock. Because individual firms are interdependent and rely on each other, either as supplier of intermediate goods or client for their own production, an exogenous financial shock affecting a...

Trade and industrial production have been increasingly interlinked, thanks to the vertical integration of global manufacturing through outsourcing and off-shoring. The expansion of international supply chains apparently determined an increase in trade elasticity observed since the late 1980s,...

Because individual firms are interdependent and rely on each other, either as supplier of intermediate goods or client for their own production, an exogenous financial shock affecting a single firm, such as the termination of a line of credit, reverberates through the productive chain. The...

In the late 1970s, numerous domestic and external factors began to destabilize the Central American economies. In some cases, a misperception of the seriousness of these problems and a desire to prolong the economic bonanza led to the implementation of countercyclical policies and the...