ProdNet26

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A production network is the web of buyer-seller connections between firms. These networks play a vital role in shaping macro and micro phenomena. The impact of firm innovations, monetary shocks, climate shocks, and natural disasters on economic activity depends on the topology of production networks. This conference brings together some of the leading economists in the field of production networks to share frontier scientific research on a variety of areas including monetary economics, climate change, macro fluctuations, firm growth, and supply chain resilience.

ProdNet26 Themes

The world economy is a highly interconnected system wherein millions of firms, spread over dozens of countries, buy and sell from each other. This web of interrelations between firms is called the world's "production network". Our futures as firms and nations are deeply intertwined, for we buy from one and sell to another. There is no walking from our profound interdependence. All we can do is ask how our actions affect others via the production network, and what we can do to manage the world's production network together.

We welcome research papers examining the world's production networks from various perspectives, including economics, statistics, public policy, and management. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

1. The impact of wars, natural disasters, and pandemics on the world's production networks
2. The transmission of monetary and fiscal shocks through production networks
3. The evolution of the world production network in response to climate change
4. Mathematics of production networks
5. Managing supply-chain risks, including China+1
6. Strategies for creating a carbon-neutral production network
7. Creating resilient world production networks