Social networks and trade of services: Modelling interregional flows with spatial and network autocorrelation effects
Entity
UAM. Departamento de Análisis Económico, Teoría Económica e Historia EconómicaPublisher
Springer VerlagDate
2013-05-15Citation
10.1007/s10109-013-0183-6
Journal of Geographical Systems 15.3 (2013): 319-367
ISSN
1435-5930DOI
10.1007/s10109-013-0183-6Funded by
This paper has been developed in the context of different research projects: TransporTrade S2007/HUM/497, (www.uam.es/transportrade), funded by the Education Department of the Madrid Regional Govern ment; the Project (ECO2010 21643/ECON) by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, as well as the DESTINO Project (Ministerio de Fomento). T. de la Mata also acknowledges the fund received from the Universidad Auto´noma de Madrid (Programa FPI UAM). Carlos Llano also thanks the support received by the New York University Economics Department, where part of this work was also accomplished during an academic stay in the Fall semester 2012Project
Comunidad de Madrid. S2007/HUM/497Editor's Version
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10109-013-0183-6Subjects
Bayesian spatial autoregressive regression model; Gravity models; Internal tourism; Social networks; Spatial connectivity of origin-destination flows; Trade of services; EconomíaRights
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013Abstract
Recent literature on border effect has fostered research on informal
barriers to trade and the role played by network dependencies. In relation to social
networks, it has been shown that intensity of trade in goods is positively correlated
with migration flows between pairs of countries/regions. In this article, we investigate
whether such a relation also holds for interregional trade of services. We also
consider whether interregional trade flows in services linked with tourism exhibit
spatial and/or social network dependence. Conventional empirical gravity models
assume the magnitude of bilateral flows between regions is independent of flows to/
from regions located nearby in space, or flows to/from regions related through
social/cultural/ethic network connections. With this aim, we provide estimates from
a set of gravity models showing evidence of statistically significant spatial and
network (demographic) dependence in the bilateral flows of the trade of services
considered. The analysis has been applied to the Spanish intra- and interregional
monetary flows of services from the accommodation, restaurants and travel agencies
for the period 2000 2009, using alternative datasets for the migration stocks and
definitions of network effects.
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