Schetter, Ulrich - 2021 - This Version: November 2019
We propose a structural alternative to the Economic Complexity Index (ECI, Hidalgo and Hausmann 2009; Hausmann et al …. 2011) that ranks countries by their complexity. This ranking is tied to comparative advantages. Hence, it reveals … their complexity. This model provides a general theoretical framework for ranking nodes of a weighted (bipartite) graph …