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Supply Chain Resilience: Evidence from Indian Firms (Revised January 2025)

By Gaurav Khanna, Nicolas Morales and Nitya Pandalai-Nayar
Working Papers
December 2022, No. 22-11R

We characterize what features make supply chains more resilient. Using new data on the universe of firm-to-firm transactions from an Indian state, we identify firms with larger supplier exposure following the Covid-19 lockdowns. Using an event-study design we find firms with suppliers in strict-lockdown districts experienced higher separation rates and larger declines in inputs and sales. We study which characteristics increase supply-chain resilience. Firms that buy more complex products, with fewer available suppliers, are less likely to break links and face lower production disruptions. We explore how firms change post-shock supplier composition. Firms with higher supplier exposure form new links with larger and better-connected suppliers.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21144/wp22-11