Estimating the effect of the Internet on international trade

Lin, Faqin

doi:10.1080/09638199.2014.881906

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“…Clarke and Wallsten () study 98 trading countries in 2001 and find a positive effect of Internet use on trade. Lin () focuses on international trade within 200 countries during the period 1990–2006 and finds a positive effect of Internet use on exports.…”

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“…Departing from this scarcity of data, different authors have estimated regional trade performance in Europe using the C-intereg database. These studies, however, are mainly devoted to studying the impact of port facilities on trade (Alama et al, 2013(Alama et al, , 2015Márquez-Ramos, 2016) or the border impediments to trade (Gallego & Llano, 2014, 2015. Bensassi et al (2015) study the effect of broadband on trade at regional level.…”

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The effect of broadband on European Union trade: A regional spatial approach

Barbero

Rodríguez‐Crespo

2018

World Economy

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The positive effect of information and communication technologies (ICT) on trade between countries has been widely studied in the literature, but how ICT impacts regional trade is limited due to the lack of regional trade data. In this paper, we test whether broadband, as a proxy for ICT, increases bilateral trade at the regional level in Europe. We use a novel regional trade database of European Union regions and estimate an origin–destination flow gravity model for 2007 and 2010, accounting for spatial dependence among trade flows. Our results indicate that broadband is positive and significant in explaining trade patterns between European regions during both time periods.

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The effect of broadband on European Union trade: A regional spatial approach

Barbero

Rodríguez‐Crespo

2018

World Economy

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“…However, after discovering the positive correlation of international trade with GDP per capita and Internet users with international trade, the author claimed that there is an indirect positive influence of the increase in the Internet users on economic growth of a country. Lin (2015) and Meijers (2013) worked with variables such as trade and international trade. They studied the correlation between these two variables and Internet users.…”

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“…However, this paper will also investigate the influence of users on trade and trade on services. This will be accomplished because the majority of previous findings were able to determine correlations with international trade (Meijers, 2013;Lin, 2015) and did not consider disaggregated trade components.…”

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Producing or Playing? Investigating Internet Influence on Economic Growth

Konopielko

Demchenko²

2018

CBUP

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This paper is focused on determining the effects of increase in the Internet usage on economic development of two groups of countries: OECD and NON-OECD countries. Two separate Vector Autoregression models were used. The hypotheses were inspired by claims that GDP per capita and trade, including trade in services, have a positive correlation with Internet usage growth. The hypotheses were tested on a set of 26 OECD and 21 NON-OECD countries for a period of 20 years, from 1995 to 2015. Results of the paper do not confirm the existence of a direct positive correlation between GDP per capita and Internet users. For all countries, a direct comparison of the chosen variables show a negative correlation. For OECD countries, trade in services has a positive correlation with Internet usage growth, while for NON-OECD countries both trade and trade in services showed a positive correlation with Internet usage growth. JEL Classification Numbers: O11, O33, O57; DOI: http://dx.

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“…By allowing wider access to ideas, the Internet may boost innovation (Arthur, 2007) and support more inclusive innovation, that is, the widening of the often very small group of innovating firms in emerging and developing economies (e.g., OECD, 2001;Paunov, 2013;Paunov & Rollo, 2016). The growing literature on the macroeconomic impact of the Internet has also shown that a rise in Internet use is positively associated with international trade, notably export of goods (e.g., Clarke & Wallsten, 2006;Freund & Weinhold, 2004;Gnangnon & Iyer, 2017;Lin, 2015) and export of services (e.g., Choi, 2010;Freund & Weinhold, 2002). Internet use could also help reduce inflation (e.g., Yi & Choi, 2005), exert a positive impact on economic growth (e.g., Choi and Yi, 2009), exert a reducing impact on corruption (e.g., Lio, Liu, & Ou, 2011), and positively influence exchange traded funds (ETF) (e.g., Lechman & Marszk, 2015).…”

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Does Aid for Information and Communications Technology Help Reduce the Global Digital Divide?

Gnangnon¹

2019

Policy & Internet

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The Aid for Trade (AfT) initiative was launched at the 2005 World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference with the aim of helping developing countries develop their trade capacity and better integrate into the global trade system. This article examines the impact of Aid for Information and Communications Technology (ICT) (a component of AfT) on the global digital divide of recipient countries, measured by the Internet penetration rate (i.e., the proportion of individuals using the Internet in a given country) and the Internet penetration distance (i.e., the difference between a country's Internet penetration rate and the world average). The analysis was conducted on a sample of 119 countries, spanning the period 2004–2015. We find empirical evidence that higher AfT inflows for ICT are conducive to both higher Internet penetration rate and higher Internet penetration distance for recipient countries. However, more advanced AfT recipient‐countries experience a higher positive effect of AfT for ICT than do relatively less advanced countries. These findings suggest that scaling up of AfT for ICT for developing countries (but particularly the poorest countries) is necessary to help them build the Internet‐related infrastructure necessary to benefit from the growing digital economy.

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Estimating the effect of the Internet on international trade

Cited by 108 publications

References 32 publications

The effect of broadband on European Union trade: A regional spatial approach

The effect of broadband on European Union trade: A regional spatial approach

Producing or Playing? Investigating Internet Influence on Economic Growth

Does Aid for Information and Communications Technology Help Reduce the Global Digital Divide?

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