Regional Digital Trade Rules and Digital Service Exports

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This study selected 44 countries worldwide as the research sample from 2005 to 2021. Based on the TAPED database, the depth index of regional digital trade rules was quantified, and an empirical test was conducted to examine the impact effect of regional digital trade rules on bilateral digital service exports. The study found that the improvement of the depth of regional digital trade rules significantly promoted the scale of bilateral digital service trade exports, and this conclusion remained valid after a series of robustness tests. From the perspective of the impact path, this promoting effect was mainly achieved through export diversification. Heterogeneity analysis revealed that the data-related clauses, market access clauses, and trade promotion clauses had the most significant trade-promoting effect on digital services; compared with capital-intensive sectors, regional digital trade rules had a more significant trade-creation effect on technology-intensive sectors, while they had a certain inhibitory effect on knowledge-intensive sectors. This study is of great significance for all countries to promote digital economic development through institutional openness and to facilitate the transformation of international digital trade rules from fragmented bargaining to inclusive governance.

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