The Impact of Regional Digital Trade Rules'Network Position on Service Export Sophistication
This paper builds a network of RTA digital trade rules on the basis of quantifying the depth of regional digital trade rules and empirically explores the impact of network position on a country's service export sophistication.The results show that the improvement of the network centrality of RTA digital trade rules can significantly increase a country's service export sophistication.This promotion effect is mainly achieved through two channels:promoting regulatory integration and reducing information costs.The heterogeneity analysis shows that the impact of the network centrality of RTA digital trade rules on service export sophistication is heterogeneous among countries with different income levels;the increase in the network centrality of digital economy provisions and e-commerce provisions has a significant promotion effect on service export sophistication;the network centrality of data flow provisions has a sig-nificantly positive impact on high-income countries and the network centrality of intellectual property provisions has a significantly positive impact on non-high-income countries.The research in this paper provides empirical evidence for China to accelerate the construction of a global RTA digital trade rules network,improve its influence of rules and network position,and further increase its service export sophistication.
Regional Trade AgreementsDigital Trade RulesDepth of RulesService Export Sophistication
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