Research

A study investigating how sharp declines in international trade propagate and are suppressed has been published in Chaos, Solitons & Fractals. Using a hypergraph representation of international trade, the researchers analyzed collapse dynamics at the level of individual trade relations and found that smaller-volume trades are more vulnerable to collapse while their spreading impact remains limited. The study further demonstrates, through theory and simulations, that the interplay between trade structure and collapse dynamics acts as a stabilization mechanism that suppresses global-scale collapse spreading.