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International Economic Integration: Comparing Exports and FDI Networks in the New Millennium
Full text linkTrade and foreign direct investments (FDI) represent the real and the capital side of international economic
integration. While Network Analysis (NA) on world trade network (WTN) is wide, few analyses describe world
investment networks (WIN), since FDI data suitable for comparison are very scarce and very complex to collect.
In this paper, we exploit FDI Bilateral Statistics by UNCTAD (2014), to compare WTN and WIN in the first
decade of the new millennium, before and after 2008 crisis. Results show that all countries are integrated since
there are few isolated economies, and unique largest components emerge confirming the complexity of global
value chain. 2008 economic crisis affected WTN, but not WIN. Geography, rather than economic similarity, is
crucial in defining trading connections and cohesive subgroups. WIN and WTN links are mutual in all networks,
confirming that once a link is established, it is easier to maintain all commercial relations. WIN and WTN key
players are USA, Germany and China for Exports, while USA and Germany for FDI. There is a positive
association between couplets of WTN and WIN links, conjecturing that FDI and Exports networks could be
complements, rather than substitut
Institutions and Civil Society relations in Migori county (Kenya): a Social Network Analysis of weak and strong ties
Full text linkThe goal of this paper is to investigate policy networks in Migori, a small county in the Western part of Kenya, near the border with Tanzania and Victoria Lake. In this study we build a unique network database and we use Social Network Analysis techniques to detect the structural relations among different stakeholders (e.g. institutions and civil society actors) within this county and we focus on different topics (i.e. overall interactions, training and cooperation, and for specific decision making on health and nutrition, and agricultural issues). The main results show the importance to distinguish, in policy networks, the rationale of interactions and their intensity, i.e. weak or strong ties. Institutions and civil society organizations are differently connected according to the functions and intensity of networks in which they operate. For example, for health and nutrition the Ministry is the core actor; the opposite occurs in agriculture, where local communities are the core players; and finally in training and coordination we have an intermediate layout, if compared to the two previous ones
Nuove tecnologie e commercio internazionale: un'analisi empirica
No full textThe essay regards issues related to international trade by focusing on factors related to technological innovation and the diffusion of net technologies. On the basis or an «extended» gravity model, which includes additional variables alongside GNP and population, the author examines international trade among 39 countries from 1973-1998 according to the technological content of goods, Among the variables in the model, the author introduces a nes index related to the ease of communication through the net, measured by the number of internet hyperlinks that exist on websites on a server in one country that point to web pages hosted by servers in another country. The empirical findings show that for homogeneous goods, the most outstanding variable explaining bilateral commercial flows is the GNP of the import country for differentiated goods, and the GNP of the export country for highly technological goods. For highly technological sectors, the effect of communication via internet, measured by internet hyperlinks, is very relevant, above al! in trade between OECD countries
The driving forces of credit brokers' diffusion in Italy. An empirical analysis
No full textIn the last decade, there has been a tremendous growth of credit brokers (CB) in Italy. Some estimations maintain that about one fourth of residential mortgage loans are intermediated by CB (Europe Economics, 2009); their market shares relative to some leasing and consumer credit products are relevant as well. Despite the importance of credit brokerage services, little empirical research has been devoted to investigate its determinants. In this paper we perform an analysis on CB diffusion in Italian provinces (NUTS3 level) based on spatial panel data model that points at estimating the relevance of spatial effects. Two models are developed in order to identify the determinants of this phenomenon. The results emphasise that CB diffusion is to some extent influenced by socio-economic and banking features of the territory, but estimations reveal also the emergence of an “herding effect” whose occurrence is probably due to the fact that the access to the brokerage profession is not hindered by heavy regulatory requirements
I mediatori creditizi in Italia: luci e ombre di un fenomeno in crescita
No full textL’intermediazione creditizia è stata oggetto di significativi processi di innovazione produttiva e distributiva. E’ in questo ultimo contesto che si colloca il crescente ricorso, anche in Italia, a canali di distribuzione non proprietari (o indiretti), come gli esercizi commerciali, gli agenti in attività finanziaria ed i mediatori creditizi o brokers. L’impiego di queste ultime due tipologie di intermediari appare funzionale ad assecondare ciclici incrementi della domanda di credito senza dover procedere a modifiche della rete distributiva proprietaria, a facilitare l’ingresso in mercati a basso grado di contendibilità e ad implementare strategie di differenziazione
Residential versus educational immigration in Italian provinces: a two-mode network analysis
No full textMigration is a very complex and growing phenomenon affected by globalisation and by institutional, economic and political transformation. Following a relational perspective we study international migration in Italy focusing on immigrants as residents and students. This presence allows to catch the residential attractiveness of the Italian provinces and the educational one, identifying the intention of (mostly) yooung people to study in Italy
Networks and geography in the economics of knowledge flows
No full textNetworks, Geography, Social network analysis, Knowledge flows, Innovation,
Does intentional mean hierarchical? Knowledge flows and innovative performance of European regions
Full text linkThe production of scientific and technical knowledge is mostly concentrated in specific locations (high-tech clusters, innovative industry agglomerations, centres of excellence, and technologically advanced regions). Knowledge flows very easily within regions; however, scientific and technical knowledge also flow between regions. The aim of this paper was to analyse how knowledge flows between regions, and the effect of these flows on the innovative performance, measured by patent applications. We estimate a regional knowledge production function, and, using appropriate spatial econometric estimation techniques, we test the effect of both geographical and relational autocorrelation (measured by participation in EU funded research networks as part of Fifth Framework Programme). We model unobservable structure and link value of knowledge flows in these joint research networks. We find that knowledge flows within inter-regional research networks, along non-symmetrical and hierarchical structures in which the knowledge produced by network participants tends to be exploited by the network coordinator
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