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Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy
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The network structure of economic output. Ricardo Hausmann, October 2011, Paper. "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 the network connecting countries to the products that they export. We characterize this network using four structural features: the negative relationship between the diversification of a country and the average ubiquity of its exports, and the non-normal distributions for product ubiquity, country diversification and product co-export..." Link