In the context of the rapid development of digital service trade,China continues to deepen its cooperation with countries around the world,while Japan is one of China's major markets.For this reason,it is necessary to assess the potential Sino-Japanese digital trade and identify its influencing factors in order to provide countermeasures and suggestions to promote it.The stochastic frontier gravity model and data between 2013-2022 are used,the 17 major common trade partners of digital service of China and Japan are referenced,and the potential and influencing factors are measured for the Sino-Japanese digital trade in term of total trade and export trade.It is found that China and Japan have great development potential and improvement space in digital service trade,there is greater room for efficiency improvement on China's digital trade exporting to Japan.The Chinese government can further improve trade efficiency,exploit and release digital trade potential of both sides by improving digital infrastructure construction,strengthening intellectual property protection,enhancing openness,seeking consensus on digital trade,as well as improving government efficiency,etc.
digital services tradeSino-Japanese tradetrade potentialtrade efficiencystochastic frontier gravity model