Effects of Covid-19 on Global Supply Chains: A Survey of Research during the Pandemic

Abstract

This paper surveys studies on how the economic effect of lockdown and other policies associated with the pandemic of Covid-19 propagates through global supply chains that were conducted during the pandemic period. In particular, this paper ­focuses on (1) studies in the early period of the pandemic that predict that the propagation effect would be quite large, (2) empirical studies on the effect of Covid-19 on international trade, and (3) studies on factors of robust and resilient supply chains during the pandemic.