Impacts of Internet Use on Trade: New Evidence for Developed and Developing Countries
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UAM. Departamento de Estructura Económica y Economía del DesarrolloPublisher
Taylor & FrancisDate
2019-11-06Citation
10.1080/1540496X.2019.1676225
Emerging Markets Finance and Trade 57.10 (2021): 3017-3032
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1540-496XDOI
10.1080/1540496X.2019.1676225Funded by
Financial support received from the ECO2016-79650-P project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economics and Innovation is also gratefully acknowledgedProject
Gobierno de España. ECO2016-79650-PEditor's Version
https://doi.org/10.1080/1540496X.2019.1676225Subjects
Digital divide; Exports; F14; Gravity model; ICT; Internet; EconomíaNote
This is an Accepted Manuscript version of the following article, accepted for publication in Emerging Markets Finance and Trade 57.10 (2021): 3017-3032. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any wayRights
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Abstract
This paper investigates the impact of Internet use on bilateral trade flows using a gravity model and panel data for the period 1996–2014. First, we test the positive influence of Internet use on exports for aggregate data. Second, we test the impact of Internet use on bilateral flows separately for high-income countries and low- and middle-income countries. We find a significant and positive relationship between the Internet and bilateral exports for both groups of countries. The results also show that the impacts vary from 0.03% to 0.13% depending on the levels of income. Unlike previous studies, our findings suggest that the effect of Internet use is greater for bilateral trade flows among high-income countries. We contribute to the literature by investigating the differentiated impacts of Internet use for high-income economies and low- and middle-income countries. Our study uses panel data and covers the period of the greatest Internet diffusion
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Google Scholar:Rodríguez Crespo, Ernesto
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Billón Currás, Margarita
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Marco Crespo, Rocío
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