New research examining India’s pandemic lockdowns sheds light on which supply chains stuck together, which broke apart, and why. Nitya Pandalai-Nayar (University of Texas) explains how to define and measure supply chain resilience as well as the surprising result that more complex buyer-supplier relationships managed to stay together despite the massive shock (37:28).

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• Khanna, Gaurav, Nicolas Morales, and Nitya Pandalai-Nayar. 2022. Supply Chain Resilience: Evidence from Indian Firms. University of Texas working paper, October.
• Boehm, Christoph E., Aaron Flaaen, and Nitya Pandalai-Nayar. 2019. Input Linkages and the Transmission of Shocks: Firm Level Evidence from the 2011 Tohoku Event. Review of Economics and Statistics 101, no. 1: 60-75.