particular it is important to define the network organization and the functions associated to the different network partitions … relevant network components as communities. The method is also useful to represent the network community structure, especially … the network hierarchical structure. The application of the methodologies is based on the Italian interlocking directorship …

Network topology plays a key role in many phenomena, from the spreading of diseases to that of financial crises …. Whenever the whole structure of a network is unknown, one must resort to reconstruction methods that identify the least biased …

of an empirical network from economically meaningful benchmarks or reconstruct the most likely structure of an economic … network when the latter is unknown. However, several studies have proved that real economic networks are topologically very … extensive and intensive bias, defined as a measurable tendency of the network to prefer either the formation of new links or the …

This paper investigates how economic shocks propagate and amplify through the input-output network connecting … this case, we also find that: (i) the more a sector is globally central in the country network, the largest its impact; (ii …