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BP: Fachverband Biologische Physik

BP 43: Networks: From Topology to Dynamics II (joint SOE/DY/BP)

BP 43.4: Talk

Thursday, March 19, 2015, 12:45–13:00, MA 001

An Interacting Network Perspective on Global Trade — •Julian Maluck and Reik V. Donner — Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany

In the last years the International Trade Network (ITN) has caught rising attention among the scientific community. By decomposing countries into national industry sectors, data provided by multi-regional input-output tables allow for a more detailed investigation into the substructure of the ITN. We introduce an interacting network approach to quantify trends and extreme events in global trade patterns between 1990 and 2011. Different definitions of subgraphs exhibit different characteristic topological features of the ITN. This study compares and evaluates partitions that are defined by industry sector and by country, respectively. We assess how meaningful the notion of national economies in present-day globalized economy still is and show that the approach of interacting networks provides suitable methods to perceive important patterns in global trade.