Crisis contagion in the world trade network

Abstract

We present a model of worldwide crisis contagion based on the Google matrix analysis of the world trade network obtained from the UN Comtrade database. The fraction of bankrupted countries exhibits an \textit{on-off} phase transition governed by a bankruptcy threshold $\kappa$ related to the trade balance of the countries. For $\kappa >{\kappa }_c$, the contagion is circumscribed to less than 10\% of the countries, whereas, for $\kappa <{\kappa }_c$, the crisis is global with about 90\% of the countries going to bankruptcy. We measure the total cost of the crisis during the contagion process. In addition to providing contagion scenarios, our model allows to probe the structural trading dependencies between countries. For different networks extracted from the world trade exchanges of the last two decades, the global crisis comes from the Western world. In particular, the source of the global crisis is systematically the Old Continent and The Americas (mainly US and Mexico). Besides the economy of Australia, those of Asian countries, such as China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, are the last to fall during the contagion. Also, the four BRIC are among the most robust countries to the world trade crisis.

arXiv commentMain article: 19 pages, 9 figures. Supplementary files: 7 pages, 2 figures, 4 tables, 1 video. Datasets, results, supplementary information, and high quality figures available at this http://perso.utinam.cnrs.fr/~lages/datasets/WTNcrisis/

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