This paper surveys the literature and develops a framework for research into the integration of distributed knowledge … work (DKW). Knowledge work is considered to be “distributed” whenever key decisions for execution of the project cut across … recent years is well documented. Nonetheless, research into maintaining the coherence of a distributed knowledge work project …

should be nowadays replaced with a network-oriented view. Closer insight into the concept of systemic risk can refer to the … have disastrous effects and cause extreme damage as the number of network nodes goes to infinity. Strongly interconnected …

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 …

probability and potential impact of contagion is influenced by aggregate and idiosyncratic shocks, changes in network structure … future robustness. -- Contagion ; network models ; systemic risk ; liquidity risk ; financial crises …

We present a multi-country theory of economic growth in which countries are connected by a network of mutual knowledge … industrial revolution, followed by decreasing relative inequality. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network explains the … exchange. Knowledge in any country depends on the human capital of the countries it exchanges knowledge with. The diffusion of …

In all empirical-network studies, the observed properties of economic networks are informative only if compared with a … network) that are unrealistic for most economic networks like the World Trade Web (WTW). In this paper we study the evolution … of the WTW using a recently-proposed family of null network models. The method allows to analytically obtain the expected …

We study the endogenous network formation of bilateral and multilateral trade agreements by means of hypergraphs and …

We present a multi-country theory of economic growth in which countries are connected by a network of mutual knowledge … industrial revolution. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network produces an extraordinary diversity of individual growth … exchange. Growth is generated through human capital accumulation and knowledge externalities. The available knowledge in any …

We present a multi-country theory of economic growth in which countries are connected by a network of mutual knowledge … industrial revolution. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network produces an extraordinary diversity of individual growth … exchange. Growth is generated through human capital accumulation and knowledge externalities. The available knowledge in any …

In this paper, we examine possible types of network formation among immigrants in the diaspora and between those … network structure on the country of origin, such as on international trade. We find that when the size of the diaspora is …