Digital connectivity and firm participation in foreign markets: An exporter-based bilateral analysis

IF 5.1 1区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS
Michele Imbruno , Joël Cariolle , Jaime de Melo
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Abstract

This paper studies how the bilateral digital connectivity resulting from the deployment of telecommunications SubMarine Cable (SMC) affects firm participation in export markets. Based on a heterogeneous firm model and using an unbalanced panel of bilateral trade data across 48 countries during the period 1997–2014, we find that an SMC connection between two countries is associated with an increase in the number of bilateral exporters in developed countries, together with a reduction in the number of bilateral exporters in developing countries. This negative association between bilateral connectivity and firm participation in export markets appears to be stronger in the poorest developing areas, where firms have lower digital absorptive capacity: Middle East & North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa. The growth in world connectivity spurred by SMCs deployment has therefore had a heterogeneous effect on firms’ decision to export, pushing more firms from high-income countries to enter export markets and some incumbent exporters from lower-income countries to exit them.
数字连接与企业参与国外市场:基于出口商的双边分析
本文研究了电信海底电缆(SMC)的部署所导致的双边数字连接如何影响企业参与出口市场。基于异质性企业模型,并使用1997-2014年期间48个国家双边贸易数据的不平衡面板,我们发现两国之间的SMC连接与发达国家双边出口商数量的增加有关,同时与发展中国家双边出口商数量的减少有关。双边连通性与企业参与出口市场之间的这种负相关关系在最贫穷的发展中地区似乎更为强烈,那里的企业数字吸收能力较低。北非和撒哈拉以南非洲。因此,中小企业的部署刺激了世界连通性的增长,对企业的出口决策产生了异质影响,促使高收入国家的更多企业进入出口市场,而低收入国家的一些现有出口商退出出口市场。
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4.00%
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126
审稿时长
72 days
期刊介绍: The Journal of Development Economics publishes papers relating to all aspects of economic development - from immediate policy concerns to structural problems of underdevelopment. The emphasis is on quantitative or analytical work, which is relevant as well as intellectually stimulating.
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