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Synthetic supply networks

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  • Galvin Ng
  • Luca Mungo
  • Damien Bertrand
  • Franc{c}ois Lafond

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A good representation of the population of firms and households is essential for large-scale economic models. While there exist good methods to create synthetic populations of households, creating synthetic populations of firms and, crucially, their supply chain links, is typically much harder. Here, we introduce a flexible method to create synthetic supply networks that match both the known properties of firm-level supply networks and the properties of aggregated input-output tables used in macroeconomic models. Our method is fast, and because it uses only publicly available data, it is fully reproducible and can be easily extended.

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  • Galvin Ng & Luca Mungo & Damien Bertrand & Franc{c}ois Lafond, 2026. "Synthetic supply networks," Papers 2608.03716, arXiv.org.
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