4 papers
Economic Power in International Trade
Ashwin Bhattathiripad, Vipin P Veetil
Economic power is a country's capacity to harm another more than itself by withdrawing from a trading relationship. This paper develops a short-run model of trade disruptions to me…
Forced condensation and anti-condensation on heavy-tailed networks
T. Ashwin Bhattathiripad, Vipin P. Veetil
We study a driven selection mechanism on a fixed heavy-tailed network. At each step, a power-normalization rule recomputes the direction of fresh injection from the current mass pr…
How Vulnerable is India's Economy to Foreign Sanctions?
Vipin P. Veetil
This paper develops a simple model of the world supply chain to estimate the effects of sanctions that restrict the flow of inputs from one country to another. Such restrictions op…
When Is Degree Enough? Bounds on Degree-Eigenvector Misalignment in Assortative Structured Networks
Sreerag Puravankara, Vipin P. Veetil
A tight alignment between the degree vector and the leading eigenvector arises naturally in networks with neutral degree mixing and the absence of local structures. Many real-world…