The evolution of world trade from 1995 to 2014 : a network approach

Borradores de Economia
Número: 
985
Publicado: 
Clasificación JEL: 
F10, F14, D85
Palabras clave: 
World Trade, Network Analysis, Graph, minimal spanning tree

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