信息成本与国际贸易:亚洲华商网络与ICT对中国对外贸易影响的面板数据分析

Information Cost and International Trade——A Panel Data Analysis of the Effects of Asia Ethnic Chinese Networks and ICT on the International Trade of China

信息成本是国际贸易中的主要交易成本,而社会网络和信息通讯技术可以减少这一交易成本从而促进国际贸易的发生。结果表明,在这两类因素中,分布在亚洲的华商网络对中国对外贸易发展所作出的贡献要远远大于信息通讯技术改善所作的贡献,并且这两者之间也存在着一种相互促进与相互抑制的交互作用。文章表明,信息通讯技术网络的改善会明显抑制亚洲华商网络对中国进口贸易的促进作用,但同时对亚洲华商网络促进中国出口贸易的效应影响不大。

The new estimates of the effects of Asian Ethnic Chinese Network and ICT on International Trade of China is provided. Asian Ethnic Chinese Network are more important in facilitaring Chinese international trade than ICT, in fact, with the improvement of ICT network between China and Asian Countries, it will worsening the positive effect that the Asian Ethnic Chinese Network on Chinese imports, but has little effect on Chinese exports.