• Media type: E-Book; Report
  • Title: The global logistic chain under siege in a post-Covid era
  • Contributor: Oxelheim, Lars [Author]; Randøy, Trond [Author]
  • imprint: Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), 2021
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: F16 ; Post-Covid era ; Technology shift ; F34 ; G01 ; Global logistic chain ; F23 ; State aid ; Job creation ; E58
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  • Description: Based on historical analogies, we emphasize a connection between financial crises and technological shifts where the shift calls for a structural economic transformation. We discuss how political pressures related to this structural transformation pave the way for the return of a new form of Mercantilism. This time it is the competition for high-tech jobs that drives politicians to be more nationalistic. Our conclusion is that the race for jobs in a period of technology shift, coupled with experimental efforts by central banks, will lead to the need for a post-covid 19 reorganization of international companies' global logistics chain. The current pandemic will act as a catalyst to this very transformation.
  • Access State: Open Access