The phenomenon of international production sharing, in which production is broken up into smaller bits of tasks and locate them in separate places, has been widely observed globally in the last several decades. While it has been getting a lot of attention, it is still not clear how to define and...

This paper employs network analysis to study world trade from 1995 to 2014. We focus on the main connective features of the world trade network (WTN) and their dynamics. Results suggest that countries' efforts to attain the benefits of trade have resulted in an intertwined network that is...

This paper investigates the evolution of the world crude oil market and the pricing power for major oil-producing and oil-consuming countries using graph theory. A minimal spanning tree for the world crude oil market is constructed and some empirical results are given. The integration of the...

The paper proposes an alternative way to observe and extract the multiple matches games of sports, i.e.: tennis tournament in the Athlete's Historical Relative Performance Index and its representation as graph. The finding of the small world topology is elaborated along with further statistical...