A Comparative Analysis of the Predictive Abilities of Economic Complexity Metrics Using International Trade Network

Figure 7

Merging of Italy, Germany, Spain, and Japan with all other countries in the dataset. The -axis is the difference of fitness with the initial country and the target country it is merged with, while the -axis is the difference of fitness when the initial country is merged with the target country. The color stands for the fraction of common exports between the base and target countries.