Reconstructing supply networks

François Lafond, Luca Mungo, Alexandra Brintrup and Diego Garlaschelli

INET Oxford Working Papers from Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford

Abstract: Network reconstruction is a well-developed sub-field of network science, but it has only recently been applied to production networks, where nodes are firms and edges represent customer-supplier relationships. We review the literature that has flourished to infer the topology of these networks by partial, aggregate, or indirect observation of the data. We discuss why this is an important endeavour, what needs to be reconstructed, what makes it different from other network reconstruction problems, and how different researchers have approached the problem. We conclude with a research agenda.

Keywords: link prediction; supply networks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2023-10
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