Networking through International Energy Organizations: Comparison by Trade Type
Abstract
This study investigates differences regarding international energy
cooperation among countries by energy trade type. In particular, it
classifies 49 major oil and natural gas trading countries into exporting,
importing, and balanced countries (i.e., remarkable countries in both
export and import), and compares two network characteristics of each
group within a network formed through participation in 28 interna-
tional energy organizations. The analysis results confirm that both the
importing and balanced groups have higher values for both degree and
power centrality indices compared to the exporting group. However,
there is no statistically significant difference between the importing
group and the balanced one.
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