Dyadic Analysis

This paper asks how to measure bilateral (dyadic) trade dependence in a contemporary world economy characterized by intensive intermediate goods trade and changing availability of partners and substitutes. The authors construct measures from structural-gravity models that quantify (1) how much trade interruptions reduce a country’s welfare and (2) how much additional trade from existing partners would be required to compensate. The brief summarizes the research question, the measurement approach, and the paper’s reported comparisons with traditional aggregate measures.

The authority of U.S. Supreme Court majority opinions rests largely on their use as precedents. Existing studies of citation patterns face two key limitations: dyadic citations are usually aggregated to the case level, and citations are treated as if they arise independently. This paper presents a method that addresses both issues and models citations at the dyadic, network level.

This paper analyses Russia's military behaviour in the post-Soviet space from 1992 to 2010 and empirically tests what international and domestic factors drove decisions to escalate.