Industry Aware Firm Level Network Reconstruction

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Hauptverfasser: Devetak, Mitja, Mandel, Antoine
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author Devetak, Mitja
Mandel, Antoine
author_facet Devetak, Mitja
Mandel, Antoine
contents A number of recent contributions have put forward the topological structure of production networks as a key determinant of macro-economic dynamics. However, firm-to-firm production networks data is generally not available. Against this background, reconstruction method based on firms' size have been developed. This paper enriches this set of reconstruction methods by integrating input-output sectoral flows in the reconstruction process. We derive analytical expressions for the maximum entropy solutions to the firm network reconstruction problem with sectoral input-output constraints, first for binary networks and then for weight reconstruction. We perform a numerical analysis comparing standard and input-output based reconstruction methods using Hungarian production network data. Our results show that adding input-output constraints substantially reduces deviations from the input-output structure compared with standard methods. Our augmented method provides an almost perfect fit to input-output data, though all methods have difficulties reproducing other structural characteristics.
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spellingShingle Industry Aware Firm Level Network Reconstruction
Devetak, Mitja
Mandel, Antoine
Physics and Society
General Economics
Economics
A number of recent contributions have put forward the topological structure of production networks as a key determinant of macro-economic dynamics. However, firm-to-firm production networks data is generally not available. Against this background, reconstruction method based on firms' size have been developed. This paper enriches this set of reconstruction methods by integrating input-output sectoral flows in the reconstruction process. We derive analytical expressions for the maximum entropy solutions to the firm network reconstruction problem with sectoral input-output constraints, first for binary networks and then for weight reconstruction. We perform a numerical analysis comparing standard and input-output based reconstruction methods using Hungarian production network data. Our results show that adding input-output constraints substantially reduces deviations from the input-output structure compared with standard methods. Our augmented method provides an almost perfect fit to input-output data, though all methods have difficulties reproducing other structural characteristics.
title Industry Aware Firm Level Network Reconstruction
topic Physics and Society
General Economics
Economics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.21895