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most citedA network analysis of countries' export flows: firm grounds for the building blocks of the economy

192 citations · 350 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.CL2026

Anticipating Innovation Using Large Language Models

Enrico Maria Fenoaltea, Filippo Santoro, Giordano De Marzo +2

Forecasting innovation, intended as the emergence of new technological combinations, is a fundamental challenge for science and policy. We show that forthcoming combinations leave…

physics.soc-ph2025

Product-level value chains from firm data: mapping trophic levels into economic growth

Massimiliano Fessina, Andrea Tacchella, Andrea Zaccaria

We reconstruct a product-level input-output network based on firm-level import-export data of Italian firms. We show that the network has a statistically significant, yet nuanced t…

physics.soc-ph2025

Comparative Analysis of Technological Fitness and Coherence at different geographical scales

Matteo Straccamore, Matteo Bruno, Andrea Tacchella

Debates over the trade-offs between specialization and diversification have long intrigued scholars and policymakers. Specialization can amplify an economy by concentrating on core…

econ.GN2025

Vulnerabilities and capabilities in the EU Automotive industry: Leveraging Input-Output Analysis and Economic Complexity

Lorenzo Cresti, Dario Mazzilli, Aurelio Patelli +2

This paper investigates the structural vulnerabilities and competitive dynamics of the EU27 automotive sector, with a focus on the complexity and the fragmentation of production pr…

econ.GN2024★ 2 cited

Follow the money: a startup-based measure of AI exposure across occupations, industries and regions

Enrico Maria Fenoaltea, Dario Mazzilli, Aurelio Patelli +5

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into the workplace is advancing rapidly, necessitating robust metrics to evaluate its tangible impact on the labour market. Existing…

econ.GN2022

Which products activate a product? An explainable machine learning approach

Massimiliano Fessina, Giambattista Albora, Andrea Tacchella +1

Tree-based machine learning algorithms provide the most precise assessment of the feasibility for a country to export a target product given its export basket. However, the high nu…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

Product Progression: a machine learning approach to forecasting industrial upgrading

Giambattista Albora, Luciano Pietronero, Andrea Tacchella +1

Economic complexity methods, and in particular relatedness measures, lack a systematic evaluation and comparison framework. We argue that out-of-sample forecast exercises should pl…

physics.soc-ph2021

Relatedness in the Era of Machine Learning

Andrea Tacchella, Andrea Zaccaria, Marco Miccheli +1

Relatedness is a quantification of how much two human activities are similar in terms of the inputs and contexts needed for their development. Under the idea that it is easier to m…

econ.GN2018★ 36 cited

A new and stable estimation method of country economic fitness and product complexity

Vito D. P. Servedio, Paolo Buttà, Dario Mazzilli +2

We present a new metric estimating fitness of countries and complexity of products by exploiting a non-linear non-homogeneous map applied to the publicly available information on t…

econ.GN2017★ 8 cited

Economic Complexity: "Buttarla in caciara" vs a constructive approach

Luciano Pietronero, Matthieu Cristelli, Andrea Gabrielli +4

This note is a contribution to the debate about the optimal algorithm for Economic Complexity that recently appeared on ArXiv [1, 2] . The authors of [2] eventually agree that the…

econ.GN2017★ 6 cited

Why we like the ECI+ algorithm

Andrea Gabrielli, Matthieu Cristelli, Dario Mazzilli +3

Recently a measure for Economic Complexity named ECI+ has been proposed by Albeaik et al. We like the ECI+ algorithm because it is mathematically identical to the Fitness algorithm…

physics.soc-ph2016★ 5 cited

The Build-Up of Diversity in Complex Ecosystems

Andrea Tacchella, Riccardo Di Clemente, Andrea Gabrielli +1

Diversity is a fundamental feature of ecosystems, even when the concept of ecosystem is extended to sociology or economics. Diversity can be intended as the count of different item…

econ.GN2014★ 100 cited

How the Taxonomy of Products Drives the Economic Development of Countries

Andrea Zaccaria, Matthieu Cristelli, Andrea Tacchella +1

We introduce an algorithm able to reconstruct the relevant network structure on which the time evolution of country-product bipartite networks takes place. The significant links ar…

physics.soc-ph2011★ 192 cited

A network analysis of countries' export flows: firm grounds for the building blocks of the economy

Guido Caldarelli, Matthieu Cristelli, Andrea Gabrielli +3

In this paper we analyze the bipartite network of countries and products from UN data on country production. We define the country-country and product-product projected networks an…