The effect of the Internet on service trade

Choi, Changkyu

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2010.08.005

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“…They find that a 10 percent increase in internet usage leads to a 2% increase in bilateral trade. While Choi (2010) indicates that a doubling of internet usage would increase a country's export of services by 2-4% among 151 countries from 1990 to 2006, Liu and Nath (2013) find internet subscriptions and internet hosts are positively and significantly related to trade performance in 40 emerging market economies in 1995-2010. Yushkova (2014 uses the business Internet usage index to estimate the effect of the Internet on total exports of goods in 2011 for 40 countries (OECD countries plus Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russia and South Africa).…”

Section: Ict and International Tradementioning

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The impacts of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and E-commerce on bilateral trade flows

Xing

2017

Int Econ Econ Policy

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This study examines the impact of Internet and e-commerce adoption on bilateral trade flows using a panel of 21 developing-and least-developed countries and 30 OECD countries. Given the commitment of East African Community (EAC) to become the frontrunner in export-led economy across the African continent, special attention is dedicated to analyse the role of ICT and e-commerce on EAC's export performance. The empirical results indicate that better access to the modern ICT and adoption of e-commerce applications stimulate bilateral trade flows at various levels. The study notes that the efficient use of ICT equipped with highspeed internet and secured servers is a crucial milestone for unlocking the e-trade potentials for developing-and least-developed counties.

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Section: Ict and International Tradementioning

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The impacts of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and E-commerce on bilateral trade flows

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2017

Int Econ Econ Policy

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“…15 Choi (2010) also finds that internet stimulates service trade using a larger sample of countries and a longer time series. Blum and Goldfarb (2006) conclude that gravity holds in the case of digital products consumed over the internet without trading costs based on their analysis of internet activities in a sample of US households,whereas Lendle et al (2012) show that the effect of distance -as proxy for trade costs-is smaller on eBay than on traditional offline trade.…”

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“…These agencies are responsible for health, food, quarantine, safety, and consumer protection. Survey-based evidence reveals that the median number of government agencies that have a direct regulatory involvement (or require information) in cross border transactions is 15 and that their number can reach 30 or more in some cases (see Choi, 2011). For instance, in Indonesia and Nigeria there are 37 and around 50 agencies with trade regulatory compliance responsibilities, respectively (see, UNESCWA, 2011).…”

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“…35 Unfortunately, these estimations do not control for a key time varying firm-product-destination factor that might be correlated with the utilization of the new computerized procedures, the customs delays. 36 Hence, we have also estimated the previous alternative specifications of Equation (2) augmented to include the change in the median number of days that the respective firm-product-destination spent in customs as a control variable over the period 2010(see Volpe Martincus et al, 2015. The estimates of this equation are presented in the lower panel of Table 6.…”

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“…6 These schemes have varying degree of comprehensiveness ranging from partial arrangements that only cover a subset of the universe of trade procedures with or without automatic transfer of the respective approvals to the customs declaration system to fully integrated arrangements also encompassing all logistic operations (e.g., at maritime ports, airports, and international road borders) (see ESCWA, 2011; and World Bank, 2012). Overall, most active single windows are limited in scope to trade formalities (see Choi, 2011). It is also worth mentioning that some of the regulatory activities may take place while goods are under customs control, while others are independent of these controls.…”

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The Border Labyrinth: Information Technologies and Trade in the Presence of Multiple Agencies

Carballo¹,

Graziano²,

Schaur³

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On the Magnitude of the Geographic Distance Effect on Primary Agricultural and Processed Food Trade

Ghazalian

2014

Agribusiness

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The empirical trade literature regularly emphasizes the essential role of the geographic distance in determining the levels and patterns of international trade. This paper examines the diversities in the magnitude of the geographic distance effects on primary agricultural trade and on processed food trade between OECD countries. The empirical results from different specifications of the gravity model reveal the existence of significant variations in the magnitude of the distance effects on primary agricultural trade and on processed food trade over time and through economic, geo-economic, and socio-economic characteristics of the exporting and importing countries. These findings imply that disregarding the variations through the distance effect by relying on overall estimates would adversely affect the design of trade policies, and would limit the understanding of trade patterns. C 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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The effect of the Internet on service trade

Cited by 210 publications

References 9 publications

The impacts of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and E-commerce on bilateral trade flows

The impacts of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and E-commerce on bilateral trade flows

The Border Labyrinth: Information Technologies and Trade in the Presence of Multiple Agencies

On the Magnitude of the Geographic Distance Effect on Primary Agricultural and Processed Food Trade

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