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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Credit chains and bankruptcy propagation in production networks
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Stefano Battiston
  • D Delli Gatti
  • M Gallegati
  • B Greenwald
  • J E Stiglitz
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
Publisher Elsevier
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 0165-1889
Volume 31
Number 6
Page Range 2061 - 2084
Date 2007
Abstract Text We present a simple model of a production network in which firms are linked by supplier–customer relationships involving extension of trade–credit. Our aim is to identify the minimal set of mechanisms which reproduce qualitatively the main stylized facts of industrial demography, such as firms’ size distribution, and, at the same time, the correlation, over time and across firms, of output, growth and bankruptcies. The behavior of aggregate variables can be traced back to the direct firm–firm interdependence. In this paper, we assume that the number of firms is constant and the network has a periodic static structure. But the framework allows further extensions to investigate which network structures are more robust against domino effects and, if the network is let to evolve in time, which structures emerge spontaneously, depending on the individual strategies for orders and delivery.
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Digital Object Identifier 10.1016/j.jedc.2007.01.004
Other Identification Number merlin-id:10153
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