Supply Chain Resilience and Network Stability

Timothy J. Richards and Elliot Rabinovich

No 404628, 2026 Annual Meeting, July 26 - 28, 2026, Kansas City, Missouri from Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

Abstract: Food supply networks consist of complex, intertwined relationships among firms that depend on each other for flows of goods and services. Importantly, the stability of these relationships determines how resilience the entire network can expect to be through disruptions that may interrupt the normal flow of goods and services. We estimate the importance of endogenous network relationships to the resilience of an important food supply chain– bananas. We find that bargaining power is critically important to the endogneous formation of supply relationships, but network ties are not nearly as fragile as models of supply chain resilience in the macroeconomics literature suggest.

Keywords: Industrial; Organization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38
Date: 2026
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.404628

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