Hierarchicality of trade flow networks reveals complexity of products.

With globalization, countries are more connected than before by trading flows, which amounts to at least 36 trillion dollars today. Interestingly, around 30-60 percents of exports consist of intermediate products in global. Therefore, the trade flow network of particular product with high added valu...

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Main Authors: Peiteng Shi, Jiang Zhang, Bo Yang, Jingfei Luo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4048167?pdf=render