New Advancements of Economic Networks

A special issue of Mathematics (ISSN 2227-7390). This special issue belongs to the section "E5: Financial Mathematics".

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Dear Colleagues,

Welcome to our Special Issue devoted to understanding the advancements in the field of economic networks. This issue is seeking papers that focus on understanding and advancing micro- and macro-economic phenomena by using network science, theory and tools. Recent geopolitical and global challenges have demonstrated an interconnected complex global eco-system. With interdependent issues such as interest rates and inflation, energy arms races and the acceleration of gas prices, it is still important to identify more in order to understand the structure and dynamics of these macro-economic systems. Furthermore, at the micro level, we need to understand the complexity of decision making and how this is embedded in social and economic relationships, and how macro pressures change interconnected behaviour leading to unplanned and unintentional outcomes. To that end, this Special Issue is also concerned with furthering insight into understanding micro-economic transaction networks, how their historical structures influence economic behaviour, and whether social structure leads to economic action or economic action leads to the creation of social structure. Finally, papers focusing on how micro transaction networks ultimately influence the macro-level networked markets are also of interest. The Special Issue is interdisciplinary in nature and cuts across different academic fields, connected by an understanding of the importance of networks in economic thinking.

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Dr. Paul Widdop
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Keywords

  • economic networks
  • social networks
  • network analysis
  • network modelling
  • games on networks
  • economic sociology
  • global networks
  • transactional networks
  • economic systems
  • trade networks
  • networked markets

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Evolution and Motivation of the Value-Added Trade Pattern of Producer Services Based on a Complex Network
by Yan Li, Xuehan Liang, Sizhe Guan and Qingbo Huang
Mathematics 2024, 12(23), 3813; https://doi.org/10.3390/math12233813 - 2 Dec 2024
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With the acceleration of the digital revolution and free trade, the producer services industry has become a new driving force for countries to enhance their global value chain (GVC). The further integration of GVCs has promoted the formation of a global value network [...] Read more.
With the acceleration of the digital revolution and free trade, the producer services industry has become a new driving force for countries to enhance their global value chain (GVC). The further integration of GVCs has promoted the formation of a global value network covering a wider range of regions and industries. The way of establishing strong core capabilities and competitive advantages for a country’s producer services industry in the vast value network is of great practical significance for achieving industrial structure transformation and upgrading in an open economy. Therefore, based on the Asian Development Bank Multi-Regional Input–Output Database (ADB-MRIO) and the bilateral export value-added accounting method (WWZ), this study constructs a value network of producer services and analyzes its structural evolution and driving factors. The results show the following: (1) The domestic value-added (DVA) network and foreign value-added (FVA) networks of producer services trade exhibit dense characteristics in terms of trade depth. The DVA network has a small-world topological structure, while the FVA network does not have this feature most years. (2) Western countries, represented by the USA, Germany, and the UK, are located at the hub of the global value network, while China’s network status is rising and gradually occupying a core position not only in the Asian region but also in the world. The value chain of producer services shows a pattern of being led by developed countries and extending to developing countries. (3) The broader tendency of modularity is decreasing, indicating that the development process of the DVA and FVA networks is becoming globalized. The members of the community can not only achieve trade interdependence due to geographical proximity but also break through regional limitations and complement each other. (4) The network evolution process is driven by a variety of factors. Industrial and technological distances are conducive to the expansion of the global value flow in producer services. Geographical and linguistic proximity are the main influencing factors, while the role of institutional proximity tends to be weakened. Full article
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