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

<table class="fixed-width table-group" id="tab1"><tr><td><table class="table"><colgroup><col style="width:5.97em"/><col style="width:8.74em"/><col style="width:8.73em"/><col style="width:3.25em"/></colgroup><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="4"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left"> </td><td class="align_center"> Total of all exports </td><td class="align_center"> Total for chocolate </td><td class="align_center"> RCA </td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="4"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">France</td><td class="align_center"> 292</td><td class="align_center"> 0.68</td><td class="align_center"> 1.71</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Switzerland</td><td class="align_center"> 83</td><td class="align_center"> 0.29</td><td class="align_center"> 2.60</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">World</td><td class="align_center"> 5209</td><td class="align_center"> 7.1</td><td class="align_center"> -</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="4"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<div>Illustration using RCA of chocolate for France and Switzerland. The data are taken from 1998 and the values are given in billions of US$ [<a href="/journals/complexity/2018/2825948/#B10" target="_blank">10</a>].</div>

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Table 1: A Comparative Analysis of the Predictive Abilities of Economic Complexity Metrics Using International Trade Network 