The effect of the Internet on economic sophistication: An empirical analysis

Λαπατίνας, Αθανάσιος

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2018.10.013

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“…Chen (2013) empirically found that innovation (measured by the number of patents) stimulates both export products at the extensive margins (i.e., the number of products exported from a country) and export products at the intensive margins (i.e., the export value of each product from a country). As greater access to the Internet also promotes the sophistication of exported products (see Lapatinas, 2019), greater access to the Internet would ultimately enhance services export diversification.…”

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“…Thus, it contributes to the literature on the determinants of export diversification in general, and complements the literature on the effect of the Internet on export product diversification in particular. Lapatinas (2019) is the only study to have empirically examined the effect of the Internet on economic sophistication (i.e., the sophistication of exported products).…”

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Effect of the Internet on Services Export Diversification

Gnangnon

2020

Journal of Economic Integration

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The economic effects of information and communication technology (ICT), and particularly the access and use of the Internet (henceforth referred to as "the Internet"), has become the focus of policymakers, researchers, and scholars. Specifically, the development of the services sector due to, among other things, the rapid development of ICT and the Internet, has led economists to recognize the tradability of services, which were long considered a residual and nontradable sector of the economy. This has led to research on the impact of ICT, including the impact of the Internet on trade in services in particular, and on trade performance in general. The rapid development of the services sector is exemplified by statistics. For example, World Trade Organization (WTO) (2019a) reported that in 2018, the volume of world trade in commercial

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Effect of the Internet on Services Export Diversification

Gnangnon

2020

Journal of Economic Integration

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“…While there is an increasing number of studies [8] looking at the macroeconomic effects of economic complexity, very few works have considered the determinants of economic complexity (e.g., Chu, 2020;Hausmann and Hidalgo, 2014;Lapatinas, 2019;Lapatinas and Litina, 2019;Sepehrdoust et al, 2019). Thus, by investigating the effect of productive capacities on economic complexity, the present paper adds to these few studies on the determinants of economic complexity.…”

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Effect of Productive Capacities on Economic Complexity: Do Aid for Trade flows Matter?

Gnangnon

2021

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The COVID-19 health pandemic has exposed the strong vulnerabilities of countries, including developing ones to shocks, and underlined the need for exploring ways to strengthen countries' resilience to future shocks. The current paper uses the dataset made recently available by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) to examine (for the first time) the effect of productive capacities on economic complexity. The analysis further investigates whether Aid for Trade (AfT) flows matter for the influence of productive capacities on economic complexity in recipient-countries. The analysis uses a sample of 126 countries (including both developed and developing countries) over the period 2002-2018, and adopts the two-step system Generalized Methods of Moments (GMM) approach. Results have shown that productive capacities exert a positive effect on economic complexity over the full sample. However, the magnitude of this positive effect varies across different sub-samples, with Least developed countries (LDCs) enjoying the lowest magnitude of this positive effect. Furthermore, total AfT flows are positively associated with economic complexity, with LDCs enjoying a higher positive effect than other countries. Interestingly, total AfT flows exert a higher positive effect on economic complexity in countries that experience low levels of overall productive capacities. The latter finding highlights the need for donor-countries to scale-up AfT flows in favour of countries (such as LDCs) that are characterized by low levels of productive capacities. Finally, the empirical outcomes indicate that productive capacities enhance economic complexity in countries that receive higher amounts of total NonAfT flows.

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“…Furthermore, [56] have recently shown that countries exporting complex products tend to be more inclusive and have lower levels of income inequality than countries exporting simpler products. In addition, [57] find that countries with high intellectual quotient (IQ) populations produce and export more sophisticated/complex products, while [58] shows that the Internet has a positive effect on economic complexity. Adopting the economic complexity methodology, [59] compute a knowledge complexity index with more than two million patent records for US metropolitan areas between 1975-2010.…”

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The development of nations conditions the disease space

2021

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Using the economic complexity methodology on data for disease prevalence in 195 countries during the period of 1990-2016, we propose two new metrics for quantifying the disease space of countries. With these metrics, we analyze the geography of diseases and empirically investigate the effect of economic development on the health complexity of countries. We show that a higher income per capita increases the complexity of countries’ diseases. We also show that complex diseases tend to be non-ubiquitous diseases that are prevalent in disease-diversified (complex) countries, while non-complex diseases tend to be non-ubiquitous diseases that are prevalent in non-diversified (non-complex) countries. Furthermore, we build a disease-level index that links a disease to the average level of GDP per capita of the countries in which the disease is prevalent. With this index, we highlight the link between economic development and the complexity of diseases and illustrate how increases in income per capita are associated with more complex diseases.

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The effect of the Internet on economic sophistication: An empirical analysis

Cited by 140 publications

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Effect of the Internet on Services Export Diversification

Effect of the Internet on Services Export Diversification

Effect of Productive Capacities on Economic Complexity: Do Aid for Trade flows Matter?

The development of nations conditions the disease space

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