Table A1 Sources and references of the variables
From: Country centrality in the international multiplex network
layer | description | units | data_source | reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
fta_wto | Trade agreements | 1=RTA | WTO | |
expv | Trade of commodities | Export value, thous. of US$ | BACI | |
serv_exp | Trade of services | Export value, thous. of US$ | COMTRADE | - |
arms | Transfers of arms | SIPRI trend-indicator value in Mil. | SIPRI | |
invest | TPI: total portfolio investment | Mil. of US$ | IMF | |
FDI | Total FDI financial flow | Mil. of US$ | OECD | (FDI financial flows - By partner country (OECD online API) 2017) |
FDI_Greenfield | Total FDI financial flow | Mil. of US$ | - | |
value | Value of merge and aquisition operations | Monetary value, US$ | Thomson Reuters | Worldwide Mergers, Acquisitions, and Alliances Databases SDC Platinum |
BIS_flow_claims | Flow of financial claims across international banks | Mil. of US$ | BIS | |
aid | Official Development Assistance Disbursements | Mil. of US$ | OECD | |
migration_flow | Flow of migrants (at 5 year intervals) | N∘ of people | - | |
migration_stock | Stock of migrants (at 5 year intervals) | N∘ of people | UN | (United Nations 2013), (International migrant stock (direct download) 2015) |
out_tour | Temporary migration bilateral flows | N∘ of people | UN | |
mobility | Flow of mobile students at the tertiary level | N∘ of people | UNESCO | - |
citation | Paper citations among scholars | N∘ of citations | - | |
collaboration | Coauthorship among scholars | N∘ of coauthorships | - | |
pat_cit_inv | Patent citations (by inventor country) | N∘ of citations | NBER | |
totIC | Cumulative sum of initial capacity of cable routing | Cable capacity | TeleGeography | |
cow_alliances | Membership in international alliances | 1= alliance | COW |