Research Programs: International Trade and Investment

Empirical Studies on Crises and Issues in Global Supply Chains

Project Leader/Sub-Leader

ZHANG Hongyong

ZHANG Hongyong (Senior Fellow)

Leader

Overview

Using large and comprehensive micro-level datasets, this project examines the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the trade war, and Brexit on international trade, foreign investment, and supply chains. We explore how these exogenous shocks affect business activities, transmit through international supply chains and buyer-supplier linkages, and propagate to the whole economy. Specifically, combining information on buyer-supplier linkages with confidential government surveys on the business activities of Japanese firms at home and abroad, we construct measures of firm-specific upstreamness and firm-level subjective uncertainty to empirically analyze the relationship between the exogenous shocks, uncertainty, and supply chains. Furthermore, various topics including the formation and development of supply chains, multinational enterprises and structural change will also be addressed in this project. The empirical findings are expected to provide evidence-based policy implications for the formation and re-evaluation of global supply chains.

February 15, 2021 - July 31, 2023

(During the research project period, the research activity period is set from February15, 2021 to January 31, 2023, and the data usage reporting period is set from February 1, 2023 to July 31, 2023.)

Major Research Results

2023

RIETI Discussion Papers

2022

RIETI Discussion Papers

RIETI Policy Discussion Papers

2021

RIETI Discussion Papers