Ict use and trade facilitation: Impacts on bilateral trade of sub-sahara countries
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Margarita Billon [1] ; Ernesto Rodriguez-Crespo [1]
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[1] Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Madrid, España
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- Localización: Estudios de economía aplicada, ISSN 1133-3197, ISSN-e 1697-5731, Vol. 38, Nº 2, 2020 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Africa: economic transformations and development challenges)
- Idioma: español
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Resumen
This paper studies the impact of internet, mobile phones and broadband use on bilateral trade flows of 33 sub-Saharan countries over the period 2004–2014. We use a gravity model in which in addition to standard variables we investigate the joint impact of ICT use and trade facilitation on intra-trade flows. We find positive and significant effects for mobile phone subscriptions for the exporting country; positive impacts of broadband for both the exporting and importing countries and positive influence of internet use for the importing country. We also find a negative impact of trade facilitation on bilateral trade and an inverse relationship between ICT use and trade facilitation suggesting that the lack of trade facilitation might be hindering the potential benefits of ICT use in intra-Sub-Saharan African trade.
