互联网对国际贸易和经济增长的影响

Freund and Weinhold (2002) were the first to study the relationship between the internet and international trade. They used the number of internet hosts as a measure of a country's internet development level and found that a country's export trade volume increases with the growth of its internet hosts. Clarke (2008) conducted research using enterprise data from Central Europe and East Asia, which showed a strong correlation between internet access and enterprise-level exports for these developing countries. Baliamoune (2002) focused on the relationship between the internet and trade openness, and found that the increase in a country's use of the internet would increase its trade openness, with developing countries having a larger proportion of internet users in their total population. Meijers (2014) confirmed that the use of the internet promotes international trade and affects economic growth. Furthermore, compared to non-high-income countries, the use of the internet has a greater impact on trade for non-high-income countries.