How Barriers to Trade in Digital Services Affect Value-added Trade Intensity:An Empirical Test Based on Cross-border Panel Data
Digital service trade rules are playing an increasingly important role in economic and trade exchanges between countries.This article tests the impact of digital service trade barriers on the intensity of value-added trade by matching the OECD DSTRI database with the WIOD database.Research has shown that digital service trade barriers inhibit the inten-sity of bilateral value-added trade and are achieved through two paths:trade costs and labor productivity.At the same time,the level of internet development can weaken the inhibitory effect of digital service trade barriers on the intensity of value-added trade.Further research has found that the inhibitory effect of digital service trade barriers on the intensity of value-added trade is heterogeneous;Its inhibitory effect on countries with higher levels of eco-nomic development is greater,and its inhibitory effect was more pronounced before the 2008 financial crisis;The digital service trade barrier has the greatest inhibitory effect on the value-added trade intensity of the service industry,and the least inhibitory effect on agriculture;The trade barriers to digital services have a greater inhibitory effect on knowl-edge intensive and capital intensive industries,but a smaller inhibitory effect on labor-intensive industries.
Digital Service TradeBarrierGlobal Value ChainTrade Intensity
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