Links Between Export of Digital Services and Economic Complexity: a Comparative Study for Ukraine and its Trade Partners

This paper aims to investigate links between export of digital services, country’s economic complexity and its aspects. For the study, we used export of digital services and economic complexity data on Ukraine and its biggest trade partners. For the retrieved data we applied a pairwise correlation test. As a result, we found strong and statistically significant links between export of digitally deliverable services and technological exports as well as between technological exports and the economic complexity index. Such findings indicate that the development of export of digital services, including information and communication, is strongly connected to the level of economic complexity. Future research might target investigation of revealed links for different groups of countries.