Impacts of external shocks on the decisions of hog supply chains under liquidity constraints from the perspective of commercial credit

PLoS One. 2019 Mar 4;14(3):e0212707. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0212707. eCollection 2019.

Abstract

Certain attributes of the hog industry increase the production risk in nodal enterprises of the hog supply chain, leading to high financing costs and eventually resulting in liquidity constraints. When the hog supply chain node enterprises are subjected to external shocks, on the basis of the commercial credit relationship in the supply chain, the entire supply chain generates liquidity risks and systemic risks. We analyze the input and output of the hog supply chain node enterprises under the constraint of liquidity, construct the mathematical model, discuss the dynamic differences of liquidity constraints in different situations, and measures the commercial credit risk and anti-risk ability of the pig supply chain node enterprises. If the external shock is less than a certain value, the current profits of the hog enterprise can entirely make up for the loss caused by external shocks, and the production of the firm will return to its state of equilibrium. If the external shock is large enough, liquidity constraints will seriously restrict the production input of the enterprise, which then leads to a deceleration of production input and may ultimately result in bankruptcy. We believe that the structure of the hog industry supply chain should be constantly adjusted to optimize the industrial upgrading and organizational form of the hog supply chain.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Food Supply / economics*
  • Models, Economic*
  • Red Meat* / economics
  • Red Meat* / supply & distribution
  • Swine

Grants and funding

This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 71303040), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 71173035), the Ministry of Education of Humanities and Social Science project (No. 13YJC790142), the China’s Postdoctoral Research Foundation (No. 2013M540268) and Student Innovation Practical Training of Northeast Agricultural University: Impacts of External Shocks on the Decisions of Hog Supply Chains Under Liquidity Constraints from the Perspective of Commercial Credit. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.