naa a22 4500 510728952 CHVBK 20180411082945.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11403-012-0101-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11403-012-0101-x Global networks of trade and bits [Elektronische Daten] [Massimo Riccaboni, Alessandro Rossi, Stefano Schiavo] Considerable efforts have been made in recent years to produce detailed topologies of the Internet, but so far these data have been overlooked by economists. In this paper, we suggest that such information could be used to characterize both the size of the digital economy and outsourcing at country level. We analyse the topological structure of the network of trade in digital services (trade in bits) and compare it with the more traditional flow of manufactured goods across countries. To perform meaningful comparisons across networks with different characteristics, we define a stochastic benchmark for the number of connections among each country-pair, based on hypergeometric distribution. Original data are filtered so that we only focus on the strongest, i.e. statistically significant, links. We find that trade in bits displays a sparser and less hierarchical network structure, which is more similar to trade in high-skill manufactured goods than total trade. Moreover, distance plays a more prominent role in shaping the network of international trade in physical goods than trade in digital services. Springer-Verlag, 2012 Internet nationallicence International trade nationallicence Network analysis nationallicence Distance nationallicence Outsourcing nationallicence Hypergeometric nationallicence Riccaboni Massimo LIME, IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy aut Rossi Alessandro DISA, University of Trento, Trento, Italy aut Schiavo Stefano Department of Economics, University of Trento, via Inama 5, 38122, Trento, Italy aut Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination Springer-Verlag 8/1(2013-04-01), 33-56 1860-711X 8:1<33 2013 8 11403 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11403-012-0101-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11403-012-0101-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Riccaboni Massimo LIME, IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rossi Alessandro DISA, University of Trento, Trento, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Schiavo Stefano Department of Economics, University of Trento, via Inama 5, 38122, Trento, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination Springer-Verlag 8/1(2013-04-01), 33-56 1860-711X 8:1<33 2013 8 11403 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer