TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2022//
TI  - Electoral violence and supply chain disruptions in Kenya's floriculture industry
JO  - Review of economics and statistics
A1  - Ksoll, Christopher
A1  - Macchiavello, Rocco
A1  - Morjaria, Ameet
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - Violent coniflicts, particularly at election times in Africa, are a common cause of instability and economic disruption. This paper studies how firms react to electoral violence using the case of Kenyan ower exporters during the 2008 post-election violence as an example. The violence induced a large negative supply shock that reduced exports primarily through workers' absence and had heterogeneous effects: larger firms and those with direct contractual relationships in export markets suffered smaller production and losses of workers. On the demand side, global buyers were not able to shift sourcing to Kenyan exporters located in areas not directly affected by the violence nor to neighboring Ethiopian suppliers. Consistent with difficulties in insuring against supply-chain risk disruptions caused by electoral violence, firms in direct contractual relationships ramp up shipments just before the subsequent 2013 presidential election to mitigate risk.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0034-6535
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01185
ID  - ref1
ER  -