&D and productivity levels of firms. Trade agreements between countries are modelled with a network: nodes represent … agreement is represented by the complete network while the overlap of regional trade agreements is represented by the hub …-and-spoke trade system. Trade liberalization, which increases the network of trade agreements, reinforces the incentives for firms to …

The study uses network measures and visualisation to show alternative ways of exploring international trade and its …

We examine how trade sanctions can be imposed effectively in a trading network. We focus on three factors that affect … trade sanctions: a country’s endowment, distance between trading countries, and connectivity in the network. Our models …) incorporating the consequences of different centralities of sender and target in the trade network …

In this paper we compare the patterns of trade and financial integration by exploiting network analysis. Our results … show that, by combining binary and weighted network analysis, it is possible to deliver more precise and thorough insights … central ones and use them as hubs to access the rest of the network. -- International Trade ; International Financial Flows …

This paper employs a weighted network analysis to study the empirical properties of the world trade web and their … countries display more intense trade links and are more clustered. Finally, all network properties are remarkably stable across … network analysis ; integration ; trade openness ; globalization …