Theorien der Regionalforschung sagen voraus, dass Betriebe von ihrer gegenseitigen räumlichen Nähe profitieren, wenn sie in einer Lieferbeziehung stehen, einen gemeinsamen Arbeitsmarkt haben, oder es zur Übertragung von Wissen kommt (die drei Marshall'schen Kräfte). Während die Existenz...

We analyze input-output matrices for a wide set of countries as weighted directed networks. These graphs contain only 47 nodes, but they are almost fully connected and many have nodes with strong self-loops. We apply two measures: random walk centrality and one based on count-betweenness. Our...

The measurement of inter-connectedness in an economy using inputoutput tables is not new, however much of the previous literature has not had any explicit dynamic dimension. Studies have tried to estimate the degree of inter-relatedness for an economy at a given point in time using one...