Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/283081 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
JRC Working Papers in Economics and Finance No. 2023/2
Publisher: 
European Commission, Ispra
Abstract: 
We study how international trade networks react to natural disasters. We combine exhaustive firm-to-firm trade credit and disaster data and use a dynamic difference-indifferences identification strategy. We establish the causal effect of natural disasters abroad on the size, shape and quality of French exporters' international trade networks. We find evidence of large and persistent disruptions to international buyer-supplier relationships. This leads to a restructuring of the trade network of the largest French exporters and a change in trade finance sources for affected countries. We find strong and permanent negative effects on the trade credit sales of French suppliers to affected destinations. The largest firms are driving the response, both on the supplier and buyer side. Trade network restructuring towards unaffected destinations is higher for large multinationals trading more homogeneous products. This effect operates exclusively through a reduction in the number of buyers. This induces a negative shift in the distribution of the quality of buyers in the destination affected by the natural disaster.
Subjects: 
Firm Dynamics
Trade Networks
Natural Disaster
Granularity
JEL: 
E32
F14
F23
F44
L14
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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