| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w24590 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 24590 |
| Spinning the Web: The Impact of ICT on Trade in Intermediates and Technology Diffusion | |
| Réka Juhász; Claudia Steinwender | |
| 发表日期 | 2018-05-14 |
| 出版年 | 2018 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper studies how information and communication technology (ICT) improvements affect trade along the value chain and international technology diffusion. We examine the impact of a revolutionary technology, the roll-out of the global telegraph network, on the 19th century cotton textile industry. First, we show that connection to the telegraph disproportionately increased trade in intermediate goods relative to final goods. We document that this was due to differences in codifiability; that is, the extent to which product specifications could be communicated at a distance using only words (and thus by sending telegrams) as opposed to inspecting a sample of the product. Second, adoption of the telegraph also facilitated international technology diffusion through the complementary mechanisms of importing machinery and acquiring knowledge of the production process and local demand through importing intermediates. These results shed light on how ICT facilitates the formation of global value chains and the diffusion of frontier technology. |
| 主题 | International Economics ; Trade ; Globalization and International Relations ; History ; Other History ; Development and Growth ; Development ; Innovation and R& ; D |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w24590 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/582264 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Réka Juhász,Claudia Steinwender. Spinning the Web: The Impact of ICT on Trade in Intermediates and Technology Diffusion. 2018. |
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| w24590.pdf（1148KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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