The Topological Properties And Evolution Of The Global Automobile Trade Network

With the development of global economy, the integration and internationalization of global trade deepen. Global auto trade enters into a rapid development period. Due to the various countries’ economic dependence, any country’s auto industry policy and development strategy depends on the competitors. From the perspective of systemic, the topology of the network of global auto trade and analyzing the evolution help in understanding the global automobile trade and identification of systemic economic risks. So we can be more scientific formulate macro policies conducive to the development of our country automobile trade.Taking the method of complex network, this article constructs the binary networks and weighted networks using the automobile trade data of209countries during the year of2002to2011.This articles measures node degree, concentration coefficient, degree of relevance, centricity and community structure of the global automobile trade network by using the software of Mat lab and Cfinder. Results show that the automobile trade network is not a strict scale-free network and the average node degree is on the rise in recent ten years. The integration and the degree of correlation keep stability for10years. The results of node centricity in automobile trade of the network show that the emerging economies such as India, Thailand and Mexico occupy more and more important position in automobile trade network. Through studying the community structure of automobile trade network we find that the global auto trade network is divided into three major regional trade group:the EU, North America free trade area and the Asia Pacific economic cooperation group. Regional trade group in automobile trade ties between countries and trade groups promote the development of the global automobile trade.Finally, the paper puts forward some suggestions to the promotion of China’s auto export trade. Under the background of economic globalization, Chinese automobile industry should improve competitiveness and expand export markets. At the same time they should actively integrate into the global trade network, vigorously developing "brics countries" market and expanding the scale of automobile trade with ASEAN and EU countries...