Building an alliance to map global supply networks

A Pichler, C Diem, A Brintrup, F Lafond, G Magerman… - Science, 2023 - science.org
The global economy consists of more than 300 million firms, connected through an
estimated 13 billion supply links [see supplementary materials (SM)], that produce most …

[HTML][HTML] Reconstructing production networks using machine learning

L Mungo, F Lafond, P Astudillo-Estévez… - Journal of Economic …, 2023 - Elsevier
The vulnerability of supply chains and their role in the propagation of shocks has been
highlighted multiple times in recent years, including by the recent pandemic. However, while …

Estimating the loss of economic predictability from aggregating firm-level production networks

C Diem, A Borsos, T Reisch, J Kertész, S Thurner - PNAS nexus, 2024 - academic.oup.com
To estimate the reaction of economies to political interventions or external disturbances,
input–output (IO) tables—constructed by aggregating data into industrial sectors—are …

Understanding firm networks in global agricultural value chains

A Beck, S Lim, D Taglioni - Food Policy, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper explores the evolution and resilience of global value chains (GVCs) in the
agrifood sector, which intensified since the 1994 Uruguay Round Agreement. Using unique …

[HTML][HTML] Estimating the impact of supply chain network contagion on financial stability

Z Tabachová, C Diem, A Borsos, C Burger… - Journal of Financial …, 2024 - Elsevier
Realistic credit risk assessment, the estimation of losses due to a debtors failure, is central
for maintaining financial stability. Credit risk models focus on the financial conditions of …

Revealing production networks from firm growth dynamics

L Mungo, J Moran - arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.09906, 2023 - arxiv.org
We study the correlation structure of firm growth rates. We show that most firms are
correlated because of their exposure to a common factor but that firms linked through the …

Leveraging synthetic data to tackle machine learning challenges in supply chains: challenges, methods, applications, and research opportunities

Y Long, S Kroeger, MF Zaeh… - International Journal of …, 2025 - Taylor & Francis
Machine learning (ML) has the potential to improve various supply chain management
(SCM) tasks, namely demand forecasting, risk management, inventory management …

Supply network stress-testing of food security on the establishment-level

C Diem, W Schueller, M Gerschberger… - … Journal of Production …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Recent events exemplified the fragility of national and international supply networks (SNs),
leading to significant supply shortages of essential goods, such as food and medicines …

Commodity-specific triads in the Dutch inter-industry production network

M Di Vece, FP Pijpers, D Garlaschelli - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Triadic motifs are the smallest building blocks of higher-order interactions in complex
networks and can be detected as over-occurrences with respect to null models with only pair …

Reconstructing supply networks

L Mungo, A Brintrup, D Garlaschelli… - Journal of Physics …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Network reconstruction is a well-developed sub-field of network science, but it has only
recently been applied to production networks, where nodes are firms and edges represent …