This paper studies the topological properties of the World Trade Web (WTW) and its evolution over time by employing a weighted-network analysis. We show that the WTW, viewed as a weighted network, displays statistical features that are very different from those obtained by using a traditional...

We study the community structure of the multi-network of commodity-specific trade relations among world countries over the 1992–2003 period. We compare structures across commodities and time by means of the normalized mutual information index (NMI). We also compare them with exogenous...