Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/296119 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 11030
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We assemble a novel firm-level dataset to study the adoption and termination of suppliers over business cycles. We document that the aggregate number and rate of adoption of suppliers are procyclical. The rate of termination is acyclical at the aggregate level, and the cyclicality of termination encompasses large differences across producers. To account for these new facts, we develop a model with optimizing producers that incur separate costs for management, adoption, and termination of suppliers. These costs alter the incentives to scale up production and to replace existing with new suppliers. Both forces are critical to replicating the observed cyclicality in the adoption and termination rates at the producer and aggregate levels. Sufficiently high convexity in management relative to adjustment costs is required to replicate the observed decrease in the procyclicality of termination of suppliers with the size of producers. The optimal policy entails subsidies to management and adjustment costs.
Subjects: 
management and adjustment costs
adoption and termination of suppliers
business cycles
JEL: 
E32
L14
L24
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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