Simulating the economic repercussions of natural disasters | Misako Takayasu
Channel: World Economic Forum
Date: 2017-07-26

In 2007 an earthquake caused carmakers in Japan to shut down their production lines for a week. Misako Takayasu, of Tokyo Institute of Technology’s Department of Mathematical and Computing Science, explains how data analysis can map the networks around firms’ supply chains to predict economic loss following such natural disasters – and how this helps to inform policymaking.

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