The Impact of Information and Communication Technology on Services Exports : Evidence from Developed and Developing Economies

• Autorzy: Marta Wajda-Lichy , Kamil Fijorek , Sabina Denkowska , Paweł Kawa
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Objective: The objective of the article is to examine direct and indirect channels through which information and communication technology affects exports of services.
Research Design & Methods: In this study a linear fixed effects panel regression model with country-specific fixed effects and with Driscoll and Kraay standard errors is fit to the data over the period 2000-2019. The samples cover the data sets for 80 countries, and separately for 44 high-income and 36 low and middle-income economies.
Findings: The findings show that the access to traditional and broadband digital connectivity has a positive impact on services exports, revealing a slightly stronger influence of the latter for the advanced economies. Additionally, exports and imports of the ICT goods appear to be complementary to services exports.
Implications & Recommendations: The detected dependencies indicate that in a digital era, connectivity infrastructure, as well as international flows of the ICT goods bring about significant effects for services exports. Both findings raise important implications for export-led growth policy that should account for new interdependencies between goods and services, and for further investments in digital infrastructure.
Contribution & Value Added: This study contributes to the relevant literature by extending the traditional factor-endowment approach used to explain the impact of information and communication technology on the exports of services. Besides specifying the exports of services as a function of internet market penetration, both a traditional and a broadband one, we consider the exports and the imports of ICT goods as the potential determinants of services exports. (original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Exports of services; International trade; Information and Communication Technology (ICT); Developing countries

PL

Eksport usług; Handel międzynarodowy; Technologie informacyjne i telekomunikacyjne; Kraje rozwijające się

• Czasopismo: International Entrepreneurship Review
• Rocznik: 2022
• Tom: 8
• Numer: nr 3
• Strony: 69--80

Twórcy

autor

Marta Wajda-Lichy

• Cracow University of Economics, Poland

autor

Kamil Fijorek

• Cracow University of Economics, Poland

autor

Sabina Denkowska

• Cracow University of Economics, Poland

autor

Paweł Kawa

• Cracow University of Economics, Poland

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Identyfikatory

DOI

10.15678/IER.2022.0803.05