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Economic complexity and inequality at the national and regional level
Dominik Hartmann, Flavio L. Pinheiro
Recent studies have found evidence of a negative association between economic complexity and inequality at the country level. Moreover, evidence suggests that sophisticated economi…
Comparing cars with apples? Identifying the appropriate benchmark countries for relative ecological pollution rankings and international learning
Dominik Hartmann, Diogo Ferraz, Mayra Bezerra +2
Research in Data Envelopment Analysis has created rankings of the ecological efficiency of countries' economies. At the same time, research in economic complexity has provided new…
Characterization of the Firm-Firm Public Procurement Co-Bidding Network from the State of Ceará (Brazil) Municipalities
Marcos Lyra, António Curado, Bruno Damásio +2
Fraud in public funding can have deleterious consequences for the economic, social, and political well-being of societies. Fraudulent activity associated with public procurement co…
Scaling Behavior of Public Procurement Activity
António Curado, Bruno Damásio, Sara Encarnação +2
Public procurement refers to the purchase by public sector entities, such as government departments or local authorities, of Services, Goods, or Works. It accounts for a significan…
The Higher Education Space, Connecting Degree Programs from Individuals' Choices
Cristian Candia, Sara Encarnação, Flávio L. Pinheiro
Is it possible to derive organizing principles of higher education systems from the applicants' choices? Here we introduce the Higher Education Space (HES) as a way to describe the…
Computational Aspects of Optimal Strategic Network Diffusion
Marcin Waniek, Khaled Elbassioni, Flavio L. Pinheiro +2
Diffusion on complex networks is often modeled as a stochastic process. Yet, recent work on strategic diffusion emphasizes the decision power of agents and treats diffusion as a st…
Local Wealth Redistribution Promotes Cooperation in Multiagent Systems
Flávio L. Pinheiro, Fernando P. Santos
Designing mechanisms that leverage cooperation between agents has been a long-lasting goal in Multiagent Systems. The task is especially challenging when agents are selfish, lack c…
Shooting High or Low: Do Countries Benefit from Entering Unrelated Activities?
Flávio L. Pinheiro, Aamena Alshamsi, Dominik Hartmann +2
Countries tend to diversify their exports by entering products that are related to their current exports. Yet this average behavior is not representative of every diversification p…
Optimal diversification strategies in the networks of related products and of related research areas
Aamena Alshamsi, Flavio L. Pinheiro, Cesar A. Hidalgo
Countries and cities are likely to enter economic activities that are related to those that are already present in them. Yet, while these path dependencies are universally acknowle…
Meet me in the middle: The reunification of Germany's research network
Bogang Jun, Flávio Pinheiro, Tobias Buchmann +2
In 1990, Germany began the reunification of two separate research systems. In this study, we explore the factors predicting the East-West integration of academic fields by examinin…