ICT and exporting: the effects of broadband on the extensive margin of business service exports.
Over recent decades the global economy has witnessed rapid growth of international trade in services. This has been particularly true of service-intensive countries such as the UK. Developments in information and communication technologies are an obvious explanation for this. We provide empirical ev...
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| description | Over recent decades the global economy has witnessed rapid growth of international trade in services. This has been particularly true of service-intensive countries such as the UK. Developments in information and communication technologies are an obvious explanation for this. We provide empirical evidence for the effects of broadband use on the firm-extensive margin of UK service exports. To deal with the issue of causality we build a novel instrument that exploits exogenous variation in access to broadband technologies due to the historic telephone network. We find evidence for a causal effect from the internet on trade in business services, but no evidence for an effect on trade in services more generally. |
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| spelling | nottingham-329432020-05-04T18:04:28Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32943/ ICT and exporting: the effects of broadband on the extensive margin of business service exports. Kneller, Richard Timmis, Jonathan Over recent decades the global economy has witnessed rapid growth of international trade in services. This has been particularly true of service-intensive countries such as the UK. Developments in information and communication technologies are an obvious explanation for this. We provide empirical evidence for the effects of broadband use on the firm-extensive margin of UK service exports. To deal with the issue of causality we build a novel instrument that exploits exogenous variation in access to broadband technologies due to the historic telephone network. We find evidence for a causal effect from the internet on trade in business services, but no evidence for an effect on trade in services more generally. Wiley 2016-09-01 Article PeerReviewed Kneller, Richard and Timmis, Jonathan (2016) ICT and exporting: the effects of broadband on the extensive margin of business service exports. Review of International Economics, 24 (4). pp. 757-796. ISSN 1467-9396 Broadband; Exports; Services; Instrumental variables http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/roie.12237/abstract doi:10.1111/roie.12237 doi:10.1111/roie.12237 |
| spellingShingle | Broadband; Exports; Services; Instrumental variables Kneller, Richard Timmis, Jonathan ICT and exporting: the effects of broadband on the extensive margin of business service exports. |
| title | ICT and exporting: the effects of broadband on the extensive margin of business service exports. |
| title_full | ICT and exporting: the effects of broadband on the extensive margin of business service exports. |
| title_fullStr | ICT and exporting: the effects of broadband on the extensive margin of business service exports. |
| title_full_unstemmed | ICT and exporting: the effects of broadband on the extensive margin of business service exports. |
| title_short | ICT and exporting: the effects of broadband on the extensive margin of business service exports. |
| title_sort | ict and exporting: the effects of broadband on the extensive margin of business service exports. |
| topic | Broadband; Exports; Services; Instrumental variables |
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