ICT’s effect on trade: Perspective of comparative advantage

Yao, Wang; Li, Jie

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2017.03.022

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“…The role of Internet development is not limited to Internet usage. Wang and Li (2017) found that other indexes of Internet development such as broadband subscription, the use and skill of ICT also had significant impacts.…”

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The Impact of Ict on Service Trade

Luong

Nguyen

2020

Singapore Econ. Rev.

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While trade in goods has been investigated extensively over decades, studies on trade in services are relatively new. In this paper, we investigate the impacts of information and communication technology (ICT) on trade in services. We measured ICT by four dimensions, including the subscriptions to broadband, fixed telephones, mobile phones and Internet. Our sample covered more than 200 countries from 2005 to 2015. We employed the modified gravity model and found that all four dimensions had significant impacts on the expansion trade in services, but mobile subscriptions are the most consistent dimensions. Finally, the effects of ICT in exporting and importing countries are similar.

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The Impact of Ict on Service Trade

Luong

Nguyen

2020

Singapore Econ. Rev.

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“…Since 2005, the global mobile-cellular telephone penetration grew from 33.9% to 103.5% in 2017 [14]. The rapid spread of mobile phones has brought the world into a digital era, which has had a profound impact on economy, culture, and politics [15,16], and has greatly expanded the scope of interpersonal communication [17]. The rise in the mobile phone penetration may have the following effects on China's divorce rate:…”

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Does Mobile Phone Penetration Affect Divorce Rate? Evidence from China

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Marital happiness is an important symbol of social harmony and can help promote sustainable economic and social development. In recent years, the rapid rise of the divorce rate in China, a country where the divorce rate had previously been low, has attracted wide attention. However, few articles have focused on the popularization of information and communication technology's impact on China’s rising divorce rate in recent years. As a first attempt, the provincial panel data during the period 2001–2016 is applied to study quantitatively the relationship between mobile phone penetration and the divorce rate. In order to get more reliable estimation results, this paper uses two indicators to measure the divorce rate, and quantile regression is applied for further analysis. Additionally, one-year to five-year lag times of the mobile phone penetration are used as the core explanatory variables in order to analyse the lagging effect of mobile phone penetration on divorce rate. The result shows that the correlation between the mobile phone penetration and the divorce rate was statistically positive significant in China during the period 2001–2016. Furthermore, the paper also finds that mobile phone penetration had the greatest impact on divorce rate in central China, followed by eastern China, but it was not obvious in western China during this period. From a technological perspective, this paper provides some possible explanations for the rising divorce rate in China in recent years, and further enriches the relevant research on the impact of the development of information and communication technology on societal changes.

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“…Dosi et al, 2015), and for various indicators. Indeed, know-how in ICT increases not only the export share in the ICT sector but also in non-ICT industries (see Laursen andMelicani, 2010, Wang andLi, 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%