Networks (or graphs) appear as dominant structures in diverse domains, including
sociology, biology, neuroscience and computer science. In most of the aforementioned …

A key debate on the merits and consequences of globalisation asks to what extent we have
moved to a multipolar global political economy. Here we investigate this issue through the …

Criminal organizations tend to be clustered to reduce risks of detection and information
leaks. Yet, the literature exploring the relevance of subgroups for their internal structure is so …

This study analyses the impact of political and regulatory pressures to increase the influence
of women within the European board of directors' network. To accomplish this, we used a …

We investigate the community structure of the global ownership network of transnational
corporations. We find a pronounced organization in communities that cannot be explained …

Corporations across the world are highly interconnected in a large global network of
corporate control. This paper investigates the global board interlock network, covering …

Stock price prediction is an important and challenging problem for studying financial
markets. Existing studies are mainly based on the time series of stock price or the operation …

The World Trade Web (WTW), which models the international transactions among countries,
is a fundamental tool for studying the economics of trade flows, their evolution over time, and …

Identifying communities (or clusters), namely groups of nodes with comparatively strong
internal connectivity, is a fundamental task for deeply understanding the structure and …

Purpose This study analyses interlocking directorates from the perspective of an emerging
market, Mexico, where formal institutions are weak, and family firms with high ownership …