Sgrignoli, Paolo and Metulini, Rodolfo and Schiavo, Stefano and Riccaboni, Massimo The relation between global migration and trade networks. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 417 (1). pp. 245-260. ISSN 0378-4371 (2015)
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Abstract
In this paper we develop a methodology to analyze and compare multiple global networks, focusing our analysis on the relation between human migration and trade. First, we identify the subset of products for which the presence of a community of migrants significantly increases trade intensity, where to assure comparability across networks we apply a hypergeometric filter that lets us identify those links which intensity is significantly higher than expected. Next, proposing a new way to define country neighbors based on the most intense links in the trade network, we use spatial econometrics techniques to measure the effect of migration on international trade, while controlling for network interdependences. Overall, we find that migration significantly boosts trade across countries and we are able to identify product categories for which this effect is particularly strong.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2014.09.037 |
| Additional Information: | Available online 22 September 2014 |
| Projects: | EU FET project MULTIPLEX Nr. 317532, PNR National Project CRISIS-Lab, FIRB project ViWaN |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Trade, Migration, Networks, Gravity models, Spatial econometrics |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory J Political Science > JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration |
| Research Area: | Economics and Institutional Change |
| Depositing User: | Caterina Tangheroni |
| Date Deposited: | 20 May 2015 11:16 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Apr 2016 10:09 |
| URI: | http://eprints.imtlucca.it/id/eprint/2691 |
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