International Trade Network: Country centrality and COVID-19 pandemic

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: International Trade Network: Country centrality and COVID-19 pandemic
المؤلفون: Antonietti, Roberto, Falbo, Paolo, Fontini, Fulvio, Grassi, Rosanna, Rizzini, Giorgio
المصدر: Applied Network Science 7 (2022)
سنة النشر: 2021
المجموعة: Computer Science
Physics (Other)
Quantitative Finance
مصطلحات موضوعية: Economics - General Economics, Computer Science - Social and Information Networks, Physics - Physics and Society
الوصف: International trade is based on a set of complex relationships between different countries that can be modelled as an extremely dense network of interconnected agents. On the one hand, this network might favour the economic growth of countries, but on the other, it can also favour the diffusion of diseases, like the COVID-19. In this paper, we study whether, and to what extent, the topology of the trade network can explain the rate of COVID-19 diffusion and mortality across countries. We compute the countries' centrality measures and we apply the community detection methodology based on communicability distance. Then, we use these measures as focal regressors in a negative binomial regression framework. In doing so, we also compare the effect of different measures of centrality. Our results show that the number of infections and fatalities are larger in countries with a higher centrality in the global trade network.
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1007/s41109-022-00452-4
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2107.14554
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2107.14554
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
الوصف
DOI:10.1007/s41109-022-00452-4