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 …

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 …

This study quantifies the economic effect of a possible lockdown of Tokyo to prevent the
spread of COVID-19. The negative effect of such a lockdown may propagate to other regions …

Social and economic networks can be a channel of negative shocks and thus deteriorate
resilience and sustainability in societies. This study focuses on supply chains, or supplier …

PageRank (PR) is a fundamental tool for assessing the relative importance of the nodes in a
network. In this paper, we propose a measure, weighted PageRank (WPR), extended from …

Diversifying supply chains has been a policy objective of the Japanese government to
construct a robust and resilient economy since the spread of COVID‐19 in the final stages of …

Evidence shows a continuing increase in the frequency and severity of global heatwaves,,
raising concerns about the future impacts of climate change and the associated …

To prevent the spread of COVID-19, many cities, states, and countries have 'locked down',
restricting economic activities in non-essential sectors. Such lockdowns have substantially …

We quantify the impact of typhoons on manufacturing plants in China. To this end we
construct a panel data set of precisely geo-located plants and a plant-level measure of …

Using a unique firm‐level data set from Asia, this study examines what determined the
robustness and resilience of supply chain links, that is, the ability of maintaining links and …