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Decision support system for coastal area management in response to flooding and coastal erosion: a case study of Tumaco-Nariño Open

César A. Hidalgo · 2025

(English) Flood and erosion risk management in coastal areas affected by these processes requires integrated and, when conditions allow, coupled approaches that combine physical, socioeconomic, and cultural factors. This thesis develops a …

Leveraging LLMs for Privacy-Aware Predictions in Participatory Budgeting Open

Clément Contet, Jairo Gudiño, Felipe Garrido-Lucero, Umberto Grandi, César A. Hidalgo · 2025

Participatory Budgeting (PB) empowers citizens to propose and vote on public investment projects. Yet, despite its democratic potential, PB initiatives often suffer from low participation rates, limiting their visibility and perceived legi…

The Theory of Economic Complexity Open

César A. Hidalgo, Viktor Stojkoski · 2025

Economic complexity methods have become popular tools in economic development, economic geography, and innovation. Yet, despite their widespread adoption, we lack a mechanistic model that provides these methods with a solid mathematical fo…

Mapping global value chains at the product level Open

Lea Karbevska, César A. Hidalgo · 2025

The disparities and development trajectories of nations in achieving the sustainable development goals Open

Fengmei Ma, Heming Wang, Asaf Tzachor, César A. Hidalgo, Heinz Schandl , et al. · 2025

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a comprehensive framework for societal progress and planetary health. However, it remains unclear whether universal patterns exist in how nations pursue these goals and whether key developme…

Economic Complexity Alignment and Sustainable Development Open

Quinten De Wettinck, Karolien De Bruyne, Wouter Bam, César A. Hidalgo · 2025

Optimizing Economic Complexity Open

Viktor Stojkoski, César A. Hidalgo · 2025

Large language models (LLMs) as agents for augmented democracy Open

Jairo Gudiño, Umberto Grandi, César A. Hidalgo · 2024

We explore an augmented democracy system built on off-the-shelf large language models (LLMs) fine-tuned to augment data on citizens’ preferences elicited over policies extracted from the government programmes of the two main candidates of …

Augmenting the availability of historical GDP per capita estimates through machine learning Open

Philipp Koch, Viktor Stojkoski, César A. Hidalgo · 2024

Can we use data on the biographies of historical figures to estimate the GDP per capita of countries and regions? Here, we introduce a machine learning method to estimate the GDP per capita of dozens of countries and hundreds of regions in…

Estimating digital product trade through corporate revenue data Open

Viktor Stojkoski, Philipp Koch, Eva Coll, César A. Hidalgo · 2024

Despite global efforts to harmonize international trade statistics, our understanding of digital trade and its implications remains limited. Here, we introduce a method to estimate bilateral exports and imports for dozens of sectors starti…

Cities as Engines of Opportunities: Evidence from Brazil Open

Radu Barza, Edward Glaeser, César A. Hidalgo, Martina Viarengo · 2024

Are developing-world cities engines of opportunities for low-wage earners? In this study, we track a cohort of young low-income workers in Brazil for thirteen years to explore the contribution of factors such as industrial structure and sk…

Intercity connectivity and urban innovation Open

Xiaofan Liang, César A. Hidalgo, Pierre‐Alexandre Balland, Siqi Zheng, Jianghao Wang · 2024

Cities as Engines of Opportunities: Evidence from Brazil Open

Radu Barza, Edward L. Glaeser, César A. Hidalgo, Martina Viarengo · 2024

The Growth, Geography, and Implications of Trade in Digital Products Open

César A. Hidalgo, Viktor Stojkoski, Philipp Koch, Eva Coll · 2023

Despite global efforts to harmonize international trade statistics, our understanding about trade in digital products and its implications remains elusive. Here, we study five key aspects of trade in digital products by introducing a novel…

Estimating Digital Product Trade through Corporate Revenue Data Open

Viktor Stojkoski, Philipp Koch, Eva Coll, César A. Hidalgo · 2023

Despite global efforts to harmonize international trade statistics, our understanding of digital trade and its implications remains limited. Here, we introduce a method to estimate bilateral exports and imports for dozens of sectors starti…

Flow Prediction for Hydropower Generation using LMST Neural Networks Open

Roberto Salazar Achig, John Gonzales, César A. Hidalgo · 2023

The objective of this investigation is to predict the necessary flow to satisfy the demand in order to guarantee the generation of energy in a hydropower, for which the artificial neural network LMST (Long Short-Term Memory) was used. In t…

Data collection of two real-world digital democracy systems Open

Carlos Navarrete, Mariana Macedo, Rachael Colley, Jingling Zhang, Nicole Ferrada , et al. · 2023

This dataset includes data collected through two digital democracy systems released in 2022 in France and Brazil. The platforms can be found at https://monprogramme2022.org and https://brazucracia.org.

Measuring and Controlling Divisiveness in Rank Aggregation Open

Rachael Colley, Umberto Grandi, César A. Hidalgo, Mariana Petaccia de Macêdo, Carlos Navarrete · 2023

In rank aggregation, members of a population rank issues to decide which are collectively preferred. We focus instead on identifying divisive issues that express disagreements among the preferences of individuals. We analyse the properties…

Measuring and Controlling Divisiveness in Rank Aggregation Open

Rachael Colley, Umberto Grandi, César A. Hidalgo, Mariana Petaccia de Macêdo, Carlos Navarrete · 2023

In rank aggregation, members of a population rank issues to decide which are collectively preferred. We focus instead on identifying divisive issues that express disagreements among the preferences of individuals. We analyse the properties…

Mapping Global Value Chains at the Product Level Open

Lea Karbevska, César A. Hidalgo · 2023

Value chain data is crucial to navigate economic disruptions, such as those caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine. Yet, despite its importance, publicly available value chain datasets, such as the ``World Input-Output Data…

Multidimensional economic complexity and inclusive green growth Open

Viktor Stojkoski, Philipp Koch, César A. Hidalgo · 2023

Acute psychosis following corticosteroid administration for COVID-19 and Respiratory Syncytial Virus infection: A case study Open

E. Miranda Ruiz, E. Marimón Muñoz, J. Ramirez Gonzalez, Mauricius Farina, R. G. Troyano , et al. · 2023

Introduction Steroids are a necessary treatment for hypoxic respiratory failure; however there are many side effects that should be taken into account. A 44- year-old-woman with asthma and no past psychiatric history was admitted due to CO…

The role of immigrants, emigrants and locals in the historical formation of European knowledge agglomerations Open

Philipp Koch, Viktor Stojkoski, César A. Hidalgo · 2023

Did migrants make Paris a mecca for the arts and Vienna a beacon of classical music? Or was their rise a pure consequence of local actors? We use data on more than 22,000 historical individuals born between the years 1000 and 2000 to estim…

Reciprocity heightens academic performance in elementary school students Open

Cristián Candia, Melanie Oyarzún, Victor Landaeta, Tamara Yaikin, Cecilia Monge , et al. · 2022

Replication data to Multidimensional economic complexity and inclusive green growth Open

Viktor Stojkoski, Philipp Koch, César A. Hidalgo · 2022

This dataset includes the data that needed to replicate the results of "Multidimensional economic complexity and Inclusive Green Growth" by Viktor Stojkoski, Philipp Koch, and César A. Hidalgo. For more information about data sources we re…

Understanding Political Divisiveness using Online Participation data from the 2022 French and Brazilian Presidential Elections Open

Carlos Navarrete Lizama, Nicole Ferrada, Mariana Macedo, Umberto Grandi, Jérôme Lang , et al. · 2022

Digital technologies can augment civic participation by facilitating the expression of detailed political preferences. Yet, digital participation efforts often rely on methods optimized for elections involving a few candidates. Here we pre…

Why people judge humans differently from machines: The role of perceived agency and experience Open

Jingling Zhang, Jane Conway, César A. Hidalgo · 2022

People are known to judge artificial intelligence using a utilitarian moral philosophy and humans using a moral philosophy emphasizing perceived intentions. But why do people judge humans and machines differently? Psychology suggests that …

Bridging the polarization gap: Maximizing diffusion among dissimilar communities Open

Marcin Waniek, César A. Hidalgo · 2022

Polarized networks, composed of weakly connected and self-reinforcing groups, can limit the diffusion of ideas, behaviors, and innovations. Here, we use a complex contagion model, in which diffusion depends on both the connectivity and the…

Multidimensional Economic Complexity and Inclusive Green Growth Open

Viktor Stojkoski, Philipp Koch, César A. Hidalgo · 2022

To achieve inclusive green growth, countries need to consider a multiplicity of economic, social, and environmental factors. These are often captured by metrics of economic complexity derived from the geography of trade, thus missing key i…

Three empirical studies on the aggregate dynamics of humanly driven complex systems Open

César A. Hidalgo · 2022

Complex systems are characterized by having emergent properties that cannot be explained from their large number of interacting and heterogeneous components. Different aspects of human society can be described as a complex system, as large…

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