4 papers
Economic complexity at subnational level: A consistency analysis
Wenli Du, Andrea Zaccaria
Several network-based measures have been proposed to assess the economic complexity of countries. These measures have provided important insights into national economic development…
A job-based assessment of economic complexity: from hidden to revealed
Antonio Russo, Pasquale Scaramozzino, Andrea Zaccaria
Economic complexity measures aim to quantify the capability content or endowment of industries and territories; however, capabilities are not observable, and therefore cannot be di…
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…
Machine learning-based similarity measure to forecast M&A from patent data
Giambattista Albora, Matteo Straccamore, Andrea Zaccaria
Defining and finalizing Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) requires complex human skills, which makes it very hard to automatically find the best partner or predict which firms will ma…