Sponsored by the Randall W. Lewis Family Foundation
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The SoCal Transformation Database is a centralized digital repository for the Southern California region to easily access a diverse variety of expert intelligence on areas of pertinence to the long term reinvention of our region post pandemic times. Creative ideas and best practices from both the public and private sectors will be available for free to best prepare our communities to save lives and jobs when the next crisis occurs.
Community groups, businesses, public agencies, schools, economists, and philanthropic organizations may take advantage of the relevant research available on programs, initiatives, articles, white papers, webinars, websites, forums and videos. These resources will make it easier to research, store, display, share and deliver information to civic, academic and economic leaders.
To submit a URL or upload a document for submission to the database, contact Christopher at christopher.im@bizfed.org.
Trade conflict in the age of Covid-19
International trade has been essential to pandemic-fighting efforts by nations across the globe. International trade has been essential to pandemic-fighting efforts by nations across the globe.
Sustainable supply chain management and green technologies: a bibliometric review of literature
To attain ecological sustainability and transition to sustainable supply chain management (SSCM), effective technological innovation (TI) and solid waste management (SWM), as likely impending resources, are essential components.
Risks and Global Supply Chains: What We Know and What We Need to Know
Recent supply disruptions catapulted the issue of risk in global supply chains (GSCs) to the top of policy agendas and created the impression that shortages would have been less severe if GSCs had been either shorter and more domestic or more diversified
Supply chains under COVID-19 disruptions: literature review and research agenda
The novel coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has massively disrupted supply chains at the global and local scales resulting in economic slowdown and social issues
Cloud supply chain: Integrating Industry 4.0 and digital platforms in the “Supply Chain-as-a-Service”
In this paper, we introduce cloud supply chain which is a business model based on cloud-enabled networking of some third-party physical and digital assets to design and manage a supply chain network
Mediating effect of industry 4.0 technologies on the supply chain management practices and supply chain performance
The ever-growing concern of sustainability and survivability attracts academicians and practitioners to develop strategies and supply chain capabilities that cater to the challenges and helps in achieving the sustainability development goals
Mapping the supply chain: Why, what and how?
There is now widespread appreciation of the critical role played by supply chains in the global economy. Supply chains are dominant concerns for many organizations, governments, policy makers, and consumers
Opportunities in Green Supply Chain Management
The supply chain consists of those activities associated with manufacturing from raw material acquisition to final product delivery
Supply chain resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged supply chains more seriously challenged than ever before. During this prolonged global health crisis, supply chain managers were forced to rely primarily on solutions developed for limited and foreseeable crises
Implications of COVID-19 Pandemic on the Global Trade Networks
This article measures the trade interconnectedness among countries before and after the COVID-19 outbreak, and forecasts the future direction of trade.
The preliminary supply chain lessons of the COVID-19 disruption—What is the role of digital technologies?
The purpose of this research is to analyse the current body of knowledge on the relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and its implications for global supply chains and their management
Interplay of trade and food system resilience: Gains on supply diversity over time at the cost of trade independency
Rapidly increasing international food trade has drastically altered the global food system over the past decades.
Trade and Domestic Production Networks
We examine how many and what kind of firms ultimately rely on foreign inputs, sell to foreign markets, and are affected by trade shocks.
The COVID-19 Pandemic and International Trade: Temporary Turbulence or Paradigm Shift?
The COVID-19 epidemic has taken the world by surprise. Initially, it was seen as a Chinese, and later South-East Asian, problem.
The economic effects of trade policy uncertainty
This paper studies the effects of unexpected changes in trade policy uncertainty (TPU) on the U.S. economy. Three measures of TPU are constructed using newspaper coverage, firms’ earnings calls, and tariff rates.
Services trade and COVID-19
While the lockdowns imposed in countries across the world in the wake of COVID-19 will be lifted eventually, social distancing (both voluntary and selective) is likely to stay for longer. This has already had, and will continue to have, a significantly adverse impact on services transactions that require proximity between buyers and sellers.
COVID-19: Trade restrictions are worst possible response to safeguard food security
As COVID-19 spreads around the globe, fears of a deep global recession are mounting. Some also fear that food supplies may start running short, especially if supply chains are disrupted. Others fear that agricultural production may be disrupted by containment measures that restrict workers fromharvesting and handling crops.
Diversification Through Trade
A widely held view is that openness to international trade leads to higher income volatility, as trade increases specialization and hence exposure to sector-specific shocks.
New York-New Jersey officially overtakes Long Beach as 2nd busiest U.S. seaport
The Port of New York and New Jersey has been ranked the third-busiest U.S. seaport for years, trailing behind Los Angeles and Long Beach. But 27 consecutive record-setting months at the East Coast facility catapulted it into the No. 2 slot for 2022.
Evaluating the Impact of the US–China Trade War
We evaluate the impact of the US–China trade war using a dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of global trade. We conduct ex ante simulation analysis exploring three scenarios to understand how the trade war affects import tariffs, investment, and productivity.
Firm Dynamics and Trade
We review the literature that studies the dynamics of firms in foreign markets, both at the intensive and extensive margins, and their aggregate implications. We first summarize a set of micro facts on exporter entry, expansion, contraction, and exit and macro facts about the response of aggregate trade flows to trade-policy and business-cycle shocks.
Did Congress trade ahead? Considering the reaction of US industries to COVID-19
During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in the US, there has been considerable media attention regarding several US legislators who traded stocks in late January through February 2020. The concern is that these legislators traded in anticipation of COVID-19 having a major impact on the financial markets, while publicly suggesting otherwise.
Research on Pandemics Special Issue of the Journal Emerging Markets Finance and Trade
The special issue of Emerging Markets Finance and Trade (EMFT) represents the very first special issue on COVID-19 from a business and economics point of view. EMFT is, therefore, proud to be the first journal to compile literature on COVID-19.
Trade and Uncertainty
We offer a new explanation as to why international trade is so volatile in response to economic shocks. Our approach combines the idea of uncertainty shocks with international trade.
Global coordination on cross-border travel and trade measures crucial to COVID-19 response
When WHO declared the COVID-19 outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) on Jan 30, 2020, under the provisions of the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR), it recommended against “any travel or trade restriction”.
Building supply chain resilience in the era of COVID-19: An AHP-DEMATEL approach
COVID-19 pandemic is the worst humanitarian crisis that economies across the globe have witnessed. Forced lockdowns, social distancing, and restricted mobility have contributed to large scale disruptions in the supply chain network.
Blockchain technologies as enablers of supply chain mapping for sustainable supply chains
The advent of blockchain technologies is transmuting the way conventional supply chains are being managed. Due to the complexity of dealing with many actors involved in the supply chain networks, contemporary supply chains have limited visibility, transparency, and accountability.
Do environmental provisions in trade agreements make exports from developing countries greener?
Environmental provisions in preferential trade agreements (PTAs) are increasing in terms of their number and variety. The economic effects of these environmental provisions remain largely unclear.
The Effect of Binding Commitments on Services Trade
It has long been established in theory that uncertainty impacts on firm behaviour. However, the empirical basis for quantifying the uncertainty-reducing effects of trade agreements has not been firmly established.
Trade effects of geographical indication policy: The EU case
Using a new detailed dataset on country‐product information on European Union (EU) Geographical Indications (GIs), we study the impact of this food quality policy on trade margins over the 1996–2014 period.
Navigating trade-offs in the social-ecological systems
In a world of resource constraints and value preferences, trade-offs are everywhere. Trade-offs exist within and between almost all of the components and processes of the social-ecological systems (SES).
Role of natural resource abundance, international trade and financial development in the economic development of selected countries
Economic development in a contemporary setting encompasses a broad range of parameters. This balanced panel study of 30 countries uses two single-equation models to investigate the impacts of natural resource abundance, international trade, financial development, trade openness and institutional quality on two proxies for economic development – economic growth and a human development index.
Linking international trade and foreign direct investment to CO2 emissions: Any differences between developed and developing countries?
International trade, together with foreign direct investment (FDI), promotes economic integration with complex global supply value chains, which is now recognized as a crucial factor in determining CO2 emissions.
The nexus between urbanization, renewable energy, trade, and ecological footprint in ASEAN countries
Economic growth, accompanied by rising energy demand in ASEAN countries have been unprecedented over these few years. On the other hand, the energy consumed in the ASEAN region is predominantly non-renewable, which could have implications for sustainable development.
The effect of employment protection legislation on international trade
Analyzing the impact of domestic labor regulations on international trade is relevant, in part, because (i) trade negotiations may increasingly constrain countries' ability to implement trade policies and (ii) concerns over international competition driving countries towards a ‘race to the bottom’ in labor standards are rampant.
Characterising non-tariff trade policy
Since the 1960s, non-tariff measures (NTMs) have been continuously replacing tariffs as the core element of trade negotiations. In the 21st century, they take centre stage in all EU trade agreements with industrialised and emerging economies.
Impact of Regulatory Burdens on International Trade
In this paper, we develop the additional compliance requirement indicator (ACRI) to quantify the extra regulatory requirements that an exporter may face when serving the foreign country's market. The higher the value of ACRI, the greater the difference between the sets of technical measures in the destination and origin countries.
Trade in trash: A political economy approach
We study how the opportunity to trade in trash might influence the equilibrium outcome when the tax on the externality is determined by a political economy process.
Banking, Trade, and the Making of a Dominant Currency
We explore the interplay between trade-invoicing patterns and the pricing of safe assets in different currencies. The theory thus provides a unified explanation for why a dominant currency is so heavily used in both trade invoicing and in global finance.
The nexus between economic growth, energy use, international trade and ecological footprints: the role of environmental regulations in N11 countries
Diversified human activities and inappropriate economic growth strategies have induced a trade-off between economic growth and environmental degradation worldwide. Consequently, the aggravating environmental concerns have warranted regulations to be enforced for safeguarding the welfare of the global environment.
The relationship between renewable energy consumption and trade openness: New evidence from emerging economies
In this study, the relationship between trade openness, renewable and non-renewable energy consumption for “Top Emerging Countries of Bloomberg” in 1980–2015 period is investigated.
Optimizing the Trade-off Between Learning and Doing in a Pandemic
The world is united regarding the goal of ending the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic but not the strategy to achieve that goal. One stark example is the debate over whether to prescribe available therapies, such as quinine-based antimalarial drugs (eg, chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine), or test these drugs in randomized clinical trials (RCTs).
Technological advancements and B2B international trade: A bibliometric analysis and review of industrial marketing research
In the current business and political climate, deliberations concerning international trading agreements and their importance to B2B firms are increasing.
Environmental degradation & role of financialisation, economic development, industrialisation and trade liberalisation
This paper is a pioneering endeavour to investigate the determinants of environmental degradation in Australia through a comprehensive framework of EKC and STIRPAT.
Social partners in the digital ecosystem: Will business organizations, trade unions and government organizations survive the digital revolution?
In the context of the new Digital Economy, defined by the massive dissemination of information and commercial content on the Internet and by the new relationship rules established with the development of Social Networks, we can find a set of institutions that have an active role in the rules defined in the Industrial; Social Ecosystem, as well as in the articulation of the necessary policies for the generation of labor and economic development.
The Potential Impact of COVID-19 on GDP and Trade: A Preliminary Assessment
The virus that triggered a localized shock in China is now delivering a significant global shock. This study simulates the potential impact of COVID-19 on gross domestic product and trade, using a standard global computable general equilibrium model
COVID-19: Trade restrictions are worst possible response to safeguard food security
As COVID-19 spreads around the globe, fears of a deep global recession are mounting. Some also fear that food supplies may start running short, especially if supply chains are disrupted. Others fear that agricultural production may be disrupted by containment measures that restrict workers from harvesting and handling crops.
The COVID-19 Pandemic and International Trade: Temporary Turbulence or Paradigm Shift?
The current public health emergency will be followed by the mutually reinforcing economic and political crises that may ultimately lead to serious social disturbance as the costs of the pandemic will not only be high, but also unevenly distributed, both among countries and among different social groups within states.
Agriculture, transportation, and the COVID‐19 crisis
In this short paper, I assess how COVID‐19‐related disruptions in transportation services, as well as new demands for transportation services, could impact Canadian agricultural supply chains.
The development of electronic trade and its role in general trade activities
One of the current topics is e-commerce and related processes. The article aims to reveal e-commerce services and its importance in the global economy.
PMSA: April and March TEU Number Analyses
Most everyone has been bracing for April’s numbers to be subpar, if not appallingly dreadful. Even without firm TEU counts from the thirteen ports it monitors, the National Retail Federation’s Global Port Tracker’s May 7 outlook for the month of April expected a 13.4% year-over-year drop in containerized imports.
PMSA: June 2020 Edition
No one expected May’s container trade numbers to be anything but awful. And, judging from the port TEU tallies posted so far, it looks like no one will be disappointed.
Global supply chain effects of COVID-19 control measures
Countries have sought to stop the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) by severely restricting travel and in-person commercial activities. Here, we analyse the supply-chain effects of a set of idealized lockdown scenarios, using the latest global trade modelling framework.