Supplier Reliability and Economic Reforms

Mokhopadhyay Partha

No WP2003-10-04, IIMA Working Papers from Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Research and Publication Department

Abstract: Production around the world is now increasingly characterized by shorter product cycles and just-in-time processes. Consequently, the reliability of the supplier is an important distinguishing characteristic. This paper presents a situation where suppliers in more distorted economies would be more prone, in equilibrium, to divert their production away from exports to the domestic market. As a result, importers allocate a lower share of import demand to such suppliers. It is shown that liberalization of such economies results in the importer allocating a relatively greater share of import demand to the supplier, which in turn, appears as an increase in the conomy’s exports. This ‘demand side’ channel through which domestic liberalization affects a country’s export has not yet been explored in the literature.

Date: 2003-10-04
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