In this paper, we study trade imbalances between world countries in the period 1960– 2011 using a complex-network approach. We show that trade imbalances in absolute value are characterized by a hierarchical arrangement ...

The friendship and social networks international students tend to build during their university studies can boost trade between the home country and that of the alma mater. This paper tests the effects of Latin American ...

The main purpose of this paper is to apply big-data and scale-free complex network techniques to the study of world trade, with a specific focus on the investigation of ECLA and structuralist ideas. A secondary objective ...

This paper tests the effects of students´ movements from eleven LAIA countries into nine OECD economies on bilateral trade flows during years 1971 to 2012. We use several cofactors, different econometric specifications ...

The BRICS TERN – BRICS Trade and Economics Research Network is a group of independent research institutes established four years ago by five think tanks from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The main objective ...

Purpose The emergence of China in the international trading system has shifted its gravity center, as the country has become one of the mayor actors in international economic relations. Through the subscription of preferential ...

We analyze how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the trade of products between countries. With this aim, using the United Nations Comtrade database, we perform a Google matrix analysis of the multiproduct World Trade Network ...

Colombia connected to the international trade through goods import and export during the second half of the 19th century. Regular communications among wholesale importers and foreign firms show they were well connected and ...