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Inferring comparative advantage via entropy maximization
Matteo Bruno, Dario Mazzilli, Aurelio Patelli +2
We revise the procedure proposed by Balassa to infer comparative advantage, which is a standard tool, in Economics, to analyze specialization (of countries, regions, etc.). Balassa…
Urban Economic Fitness and Complexity from Patent Data
Matteo Straccamore, Matteo Bruno, Bernardo Monechi +1
Over the years, the growing availability of extensive datasets about registered patents allowed researchers to better understand technological innovation drivers. In this work, we…
Brexit and bots: characterizing the behaviour of automated accounts on Twitter during the UK election
Matteo Bruno, Renaud Lambiotte, Fabio Saracco
Online Social Networks represent a novel opportunity for political campaigns, revolutionising the paradigm of political communication. Nevertheless, many studies uncovered the pres…
Fast and scalable likelihood maximization for Exponential Random Graph Models with local constraints
Nicolò Vallarano, Matteo Bruno, Emiliano Marchese +5
Exponential Random Graph Models (ERGMs) have gained increasing popularity over the years. Rooted into statistical physics, the ERGMs framework has been successfully employed for re…
The ambiguity of nestedness under soft and hard constraints
Matteo Bruno, Fabio Saracco, Diego Garlaschelli +2
Many real networks feature the property of nestedness, i.e. the neighbours of nodes with a few connections are hierarchically nested within the neighbours of nodes with more connec…
Community Detection in the Hyperbolic Space
Matteo Bruno, Sandro Ferreira Sousa, Furkan Gursoy +4
Embedding a network in hyperbolic space can reveal interesting features for the network structure, especially in terms of self-similar characteristics. The hidden metric space, whi…
Colombian export capabilities: building the firms-products network
Matteo Bruno, Fabio Saracco, Tiziano Squartini +1
In this paper we analyse the bipartite Colombian firms-products network, throughout a period of five years, from 2010 to 2014. Our analysis depicts a strongly modular system, with…