Supply chain dynamics after the COVID-19 pandemic and stock market performance: Evidence from the US

Gibilaro Lucia and Gianluca Mattarocci
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Gibilaro Lucia: University LUMSA. Department of Law, Economics, Politics and Modern languages Via Pompeo Magno, 28 - 00192 Rome, Italy.

Economics, 2022, vol. 10, issue 2, 45-62

Abstract: Supply chain risk is a strategic issue for managing multinational companies, and Covid-19 has shown the relevance of this type of risk for the firm’s survival probability. The market may perceive the choice of replacing some of the main customers or suppliers as an increase or a decrease of the risk based on the features of the new supply chain members, and markets tend to penalize companies that increase their exposure to unaffordable events. During the pandemic, many supply chains suffered from glitches and companies were obliged to redefine their network by selecting their new strategic customers and/or suppliers. The paper evaluates the supply chain composition strategies of a set of multinational companies based in the US during the last decade. It highlights the differences in supply chain management behavior before and during the pandemic. Data collected allow testing the impact on the stock market performance of modifying the supply chain network by adding new members that may have a different level of risk. Results show that the market reaction to supply chain updates changed after the Covid-19, and nowadays there is greater attention on the credit risk of the new companies entering the supply chain.

Keywords: Supply chain; Pandemic; Stock performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G11 M11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.2478/eoik-2022-0016

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