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Machine-learned patterns suggest that diversification drives economic development
Charles D. Brummitt, Andres Gomez-Lievano, Ricardo Hausmann +1
We develop a machine-learning-based method, Principal Smooth-Dynamics Analysis (PriSDA), to identify patterns in economic development and to automate the development of new theory…
Productive Ecosystems and the Arrow of Development
Neave O'Clery, Muhammed A. Yildirim, Ricardo Hausmann
Economic growth is often associated with diversification of economic activities. Making a product in a country is dependent on having, and acquiring, the capabilities needed to mak…
Explaining the Prevalence, Scaling and Variance of Urban Phenomena
Andres Gomez-Lievano, Oscar Patterson-Lomba, Ricardo Hausmann
The prevalence of many urban phenomena changes systematically with population size. We propose a theory that unifies models of economic complexity and cultural evolution to derive…
In Search of the Black Swan: Analysis of the Statistical Evidence of Electoral Fraud in Venezuela
Ricardo Hausmann, Roberto Rigobon
This study analyzes diverse hypotheses of electronic fraud in the Recall Referendum celebrated in Venezuela on August 15, 2004. We define fraud as the difference between the electo…
Empirical confirmation of creative destruction from world trade data
Peter Klimek, Ricardo Hausmann, Stefan Thurner
We show that world trade network datasets contain empirical evidence that the dynamics of innovation in the world economy follows indeed the concept of creative destruction, as pro…
The Network Structure of Economic Output
Ricardo Hausmann, Cesar A. Hidalgo
Much of the analysis of economic growth has focused on the study of aggregate output. Here, we deviate from this tradition and look instead at the structure of output embodied in t…