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In the last years, there has been a growing interest in studying the global food system as a complex evolving network. Much of the literature has been focusing on the way countries are interconnected in the food system through international-trade linkages, and what consequences this may have in...
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The U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) is expected to start raising policy interest rates in the near term and thus commence a tightening cycle for the first time in nearly a decade. The taper tantrum episode of May-June 2013 is a reminder that even a long anticipated change in Fed policies can trigger...
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Understanding specialization patterns of countries in food production can provide relevant insights for the evaluation and design of policies seeking to achieve food security and sustainability, which are key to reach several Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In this paper, we use production...
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This paper begins to explore the determinants of the topological properties of the international - trade network (ITN). We fit bilateral-trade flows using a standard gravity equation to build a “residual” ITN where trade-link weights are depurated from geographical distance, size, border...
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In this sequel to a companion paper, we complement our analysis of the binary projections of the International Trade Network (ITN) by considering its weighted representations. We show that, unlike the binary case, all possible weighted representations of the ITN (directed/undirected, aggregated/...
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-migration network (IMN) as the weighted-directed graph where nodes are world countries and links account for the stock of migrants … structure characterized by a small-world pattern displaying disassortativity and high clustering, with power-law distributed …
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We study trade imbalances between world countries in the period 1960-2000 using a complex-network approach. We show … in world economies, which may have important consequences for global instability and development. -- Trade Imbalances …
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different from networks inferred only from node strengths. Here we provide a detailed analysis for the World Trade Web (WTW) by …
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