Hierarchical communities in the walnut structure of the Japanese production network

PloS One
Abhijit ChakrabortyHideaki Aoyama

Abstract

This paper studies the structure of the Japanese production network, which includes one million firms and five million supplier-customer links. This study finds that this network forms a tightly-knit structure with a core giant strongly connected component (GSCC) surrounded by IN and OUT components constituting two half-shells of the GSCC, which we call awalnut structure because of its shape. The hierarchical structure of the communities is studied by the Infomap method, and most of the irreducible communities are found to be at the second level. The composition of some of the major communities, including overexpressions regarding their industrial or regional nature, and the connections that exist between the communities are studied in detail. The findings obtained here cause us to question the validity and accuracy of using the conventional input-output analysis, which is expected to be useful when firms in the same sectors are highly connected to each other.

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Sep 24, 2020·PloS One·Hazem KricheneAbhijit Chakraborty
Aug 28, 2020·PloS One·Abhijit ChakrabortyYoshi Fujiwara
Apr 27, 2021·EPJ Data Science·Yoshi FujiwaraKentaro Kikuchi
Nov 11, 2021··Hideaki Aoyama

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