Network Analysis of Free Trade Agreements Homophily and Transitivity

Do Birds of a Feather Trade Together? Homophily in Preferential Trade Agreements Network Introduction

Personal network integration: transitivity and homophily in strong-tie relations

This article combines studies of transitivity and homophily in an empirical analysis of personal network integration. Using a national sample of individual’s personal networks, the paper reveals that transitivity Ž . explains a majority of cases of network integration with two important caveats: 1 recent work on networks and social structure points to important structural constraints on persona...

epresenting degree distributions , clustering , and homophily in social networks ith latent cluster random effects models

Social network data often involve transitivity, homophily on observed attributes, community structure, and heterogeneity of actor degrees. We propose a latent cluster random effects model to represent all of these features, and we develop Bayesian inference for it. The model is applicable to both binary and odel-based clustering mall world network cale-free network non-binary network data. We i...

Representing degree distributions, clustering, and homophily in social networks with latent cluster random effects models

Social network data often involve transitivity, homophily on observed attributes, clustering, and heterogeneity of actor degrees. We propose a latent cluster random effects model to represent all of these features, and we describe a Bayesian estimation method for it. The model is applicable to both binary and non-binary network data. We illustrate the model using two real datasets. We also appl...

Economic Impact of Regional Trade Agreements and Economic Co-operation: Econometric Evidence

The paper focuses on regional trade agreements and economic co-operation and develops a new appropriate approach to study their impact on growth and trade. The approach is based on an endogenous trade-growth theory and novelly specified in an economic integration (expenditure) framework which is the conceptual foundation of regional trade agreements. Importantly, it also appropriately takes int...