Cars in Europe: Supply Chains and Spillovers during COVID-19 Times

By Vizhdan Boranova, Raju Huidrom, Ezgi O. Ozturk, Ara Stepanyan, Petia Topalova, Shihangyin (Frank) Zhang

January 14, 2022

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Vizhdan Boranova, Raju Huidrom, Ezgi O. Ozturk, Ara Stepanyan, Petia Topalova, and Shihangyin (Frank) Zhang. Cars in Europe: Supply Chains and Spillovers during COVID-19 Times, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2022) accessed September 18, 2024

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Summary

The auto sector is macro-critical in many European countries and constitutes one of the main supply chains in the region. Using a multi-sector and multi-country general equilibrium model, this paper presents a quantitative assessment of the impact of global pandemic-induced labor supply shocks—both directly and via supply chains—during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic on the auto sector and aggregate activity in Europe. Our results suggest that these labor supply shocks would have a significant adverse impact on the major auto producers in Europe, with one-third of the decline in the value added of the car sector attributable to spillovers via supply chains within and across borders. Within borders, the pandemic-induced labor supply shocks in the services sector have a bigger adverse impact, reflecting their larger size and associated demand effects. Across borders, spillovers from the pandemic-induced labor supply shocks that originate in other European countries are larger than those that originate outside the region, though the latter are still sizable.

Subject: Automobile industry, COVID-19, Economic sectors, Economic theory, Financial sector policy and analysis, Health, Labor, Labor supply, Spillovers, Supply shocks

Keywords: Auto sector, Auto sector, Automobile industry, Car sale, COVID-19, Europe, Global, Labor supply, Labor supply shocks, Spillovers, Spillovers, Supply chains, Supply shocks, Vehicle production

Publication Details

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42
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Working Paper No. 2022/006
Stock No:

WPIEA2022006
ISBN:

9781616356897
ISSN:

1018-5941

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