Global Trade Imbalances: A Network Approach

Marco Duenas and Giorgio Fagiolo (giorgio.fagiolo@santannapisa.it)

LEM Papers Series from Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy

Abstract: We study trade imbalances between world countries in the period 1960-2000 using a complex-network approach. We show that trade imbalances in absolute value are characterized by a hierarchical arrangement wherein few rich economies display high clustering and carry an important amount of global-trade imbalances. In contrast, trade imbalances in relative terms show a more fragmented topology, with less concentrated clustering which is particularly high for emergent economies. In addition, we find that traditional null random-network models and the gravity model poorly predict the topology of trade imbalance networks. Our main finding is that the evolution of the international trade has caused very heterogeneous imbalances in world economies, which may have important consequences for global instability and development

Keywords: Trade Imbalances; International Trade Network; Gravity Model; Null Models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-05-21
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Journal Article: GLOBAL TRADE IMBALANCES: A NETWORK APPROACH (2014)
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