THE GENERAL OWNERSHIP STRUCTURE OF THE EUROPEAN AEROSPACE INDUSTRY A STATISTICAL AND NETWORK ANALYSIS

Lucio Biggiero and Robert Magnuszewski
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Lucio Biggiero: Department of Industrial Engineering Information and Economics, University of L’Aquila (IT), Via Giuseppe Mezzanotte - 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
Robert Magnuszewski: Department of Industrial Engineering Information and Economics, University of L’Aquila (IT), Via Giuseppe Mezzanotte - 67100 L’Aquila, Italy

Advances in Complex Systems (ACS), 2021, vol. 24, issue 05, 1-47

Abstract: In this paper, we investigate the ownership structure of the 3143 EU28 aerospace companies in 2019, and extend the analysis to the 2428 neighbor partners outside EU28 and/or aerospace. Different from the previous studies, we consider all equity capital flows regardless of their size, and their monetary value instead of the corresponding ownership share. We further innovate by applying new methods to measure degree of influence power and hierarchical structure. The resulting picture shows that between the pure EU28 aerospace companies: (i) ownership relationships concern only relatively few companies (10%), which trigger horizontal and vertical structures; (ii) density is extremely low; (iii) relationships are fully hierarchical with no cross-ownership; (iv) capital is seldom transferred across business groups; (v) most of the main topological parameters have a typically polarized scale-free structure. When including also the ownership neighbors, some of those traits change substantially: (i) the share of connected companies substantially grows up to 63%; (ii) size and length of the largest pyramidal structures will grow remarkably, reaching a top of 874 companies; (iii) the industry becomes a full small-world structure, thus allowing huge capital transfer across business groups. Finally, a dramatic financialization, meant as a pivotal and quantitatively heavy role of financial operators, emerges also as a clear characteristic of the extended network.

Keywords: EU aerospace industry; industry financialization; inter-firm networks; ownership pyramidal structures; scale-free networks; small-world networks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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