Interlocking directorates in Irish companies using a latent space model for bipartite networks

• https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1606295113
• Nial Friel, Riccardo Rastelli, Jason Wyse, and Adrian E. Raftery

Bipartite network embedding

Interlocking directorship has been identified as a potential culprit of 2008 economic crash, which was followed by a rapid growth termed “Celtic tiger”.

The paper creates a Bipartite network of boards and directors.

Cites Mu2013automatic as an example of Latent space model for bipartite networks.