The observed architecture of ecological and socio-economic networks differssignificantly
from that of random networks. From a network science standpoint, non-random structural …

What will be the growth of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) or the competitiveness of
China, United States, and Vietnam in the next 3, 5 or 10 years? Despite this kind of …

Abstract Models developed for gross domestic product (GDP) growth forecasting tend to be
extremely complex, relying on a large number of variables and parameters. Such complexity …

Complex economic systems can often be described by a network, with nodes representing
economic entities and edges their interdependencies, while network centrality is often a …

Evaluating the economies of countries and their relations with products in the global market
is a central problem in economics, with far-reaching implications to our theoretical …

We analyze the decisive role played by the complexity of economic systems at the onset of
the industrialization process of countries over the past 50 years. Our analysis of the input …

We present a new metric estimating fitness of countries and complexity of products by
exploiting a non-linear non-homogeneous map applied to the publicly available information …

Contrary to conventional economic growth theory, which reduces a country's output to one
aggregate variable (GDP), product diversity is central to economic development, as recent …

In this paper we introduce a novel algorithm, called Exogenous Fitness, to calculate the
Fitness of subnational entities and we apply it to the states of Brazil. In the last decade …

Abstract Research Summary This study investigates the selection of generalists and
specialists as an organizational response to the complexity of firms' international operations …