The rapid growth of digital trade has had a profound impact on global economies, revolutionizing trading practices and facilitating trade expansion. The purpose of this paper is to explore the digital partnership between Korea and the European Union...
This study aims to examine (1) the impact of digital trade rules on digital services exports, (2) the heterogeneity of this impact in different trade categories, (3) the impact of digital trade rules on the growth of services exports through reducing...
Due to economic globalization and the progress of digital technology, digital service trade develops rapidly, but it also faces challenges such as digital trade policy barriers, and gradually attracts the attention of all countries in the world. Base...
An international rules system on digital trade that can satisfy multilateral interest appeal has not been formed yet despite the rapid growth of digital services trade. Using the panel data of 39 countries from 2010 to 2019, this study applied the st...
In the new era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, digitalization has progressively transformed manufacturing and further affected the balance in international trade patterns. This study assesses whether and how the digital transformation in manufac...
Fast-paced digitization is affecting all aspects of life, including the way we trade. This study empirically analyzes the influence and mechanism of digital service trade on labor income share using 48 countries’ panel data from 2005 to 2019. T...
As a core driver of high-quality and sustainable economic development, the deep integration of the digital economy with foreign trade has emerged as a critical pathway to enhance the resilience of China’s foreign trade while advancing Sustainab...
Using provincial panel data from China spanning 2011 to 2022, this paper analyzes the impact, mechanisms, and regional differences in digital trade’s effects on regional green innovation. It also explores the threshold effect between digital tr...
This study empirically examines the effects of digital services trade liberalization on digital services trade imports and its mediating mechanism through an augmented gravity model, utilizing data from 55 importing nations and 56 exporting countries...
Digital economy has profoundly reshaped the global trade landscape, yet its implications for agricultural trade, particularly in major agricultural trading countries, remain relatively underexplored. Using provincial panel data from China covering th...
In today’s digital era, the rapidly escalating digital service industry plays a crucial role in the country’s economic development. However, compared to the countries that are a part of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Tran...
China’s economy began as one of high-speed development and has since advanced into a period of high-quality enhancement as driven by the services trade. Data elements are important for promoting services trade. In this paper, we present a liter...
Digital trade, as an emerging and transformative trade model in the digital era, has significantly altered global trade methods, products, services, and regulatory frameworks. This study investigates the impact mechanism of innovation capability on t...
It is of great significance to clarify the impact of the rapid development of digital trade on China’s grain imports in order to enhance its efficiency and guarantee food security. From an import perspective, this article adopts a stochastic fr...
To address the new challenges of sustainable international trade under the digital transformation, this study aims to explore the relevance and mechanism of the relationship between technological specialization and the sustainable development of digi...
Unimpeded domestic inter-regional trade is an inevitable choice for a country to improve its economic development autonomy and internal stability. The booming development of the digital economy profoundly affects inter-regional trade exchanges and th...
The current global energy trade network is changing dramatically: the essence of the change is digitalization and renewable energy, and the study of the impact of the digital economy on the changing status of a country’s energy trade network is...
This study synthesizes the rapidly expanding evidence on how digital technologies reshape international trade, with a particular focus on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Guided by two research questions—(RQ1) How do digital tools inf...
Amid global digital transformation, digital service trade has become a transformative force reshaping international economies. We employ an innovative combination of Social Network Analysis (SNA) and Quadratic Assignment Procedure (QAP) to simultaneo...
The deep integration of digital finance and foreign trade can drive the steady and rapid development of a high-quality economy. This article conducts an empirical analysis of the mechanisms and impact effects of digital finance on high-quality develo...
Reducing the carbon intensity of well-being (CIWB) is essential for advancing environmental sustainability and socio-economic development. The expansion of digital service trade has emerged as a novel engine of global economic growth and a promising...
The world is currently experiencing an unprecedented period of disruption. Traditional theories of comparative advantage can no longer serve as the sole drivers for enhancing the international competitiveness of China’s manufacturing industry....
The global digitization trend provides a favorable development environment for the efficient acquisition of knowledge and technology. However, restrictions imposed by countries on digital trade have hindered this trend. This study is based on 60 samp...
To address climate change and advance environmental sustainability in the context of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly SDG 9 (Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure), SDG 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities), a...
With the evolution of the Internet, artificial intelligence, and other technologies, the era of the digital economy has quietly emerged. The digital economy’s growth is a major trend, and China is dedicated to building data power and strengthen...
Using the digital service trade data of RCEP member countries from 2006 to 2021, this study analyzes the structural characteristics and network centrality of the overall and segmented industry trade networks, applying social network analysis based on...
It is increasingly recognized that the twin transitions of digitalization and green transformation are pivotal to achieving sustainable development. This study examines how digital trade affects corporate green total factor productivity (GTFP), using...
Given the trend of digitization, it is imperative to ascertain the role of the digital supply chain on sustainable trade credit provision. Based on data from Chinese listed firms from 2008 to 2020, we utilized the TF-IDF algorithm to measure the digi...
Green innovation is a critical driver in achieving the goals of “carbon peaking” and “carbon neutrality”, as well as an important aid in accelerating green transformation. Does the opening-up of digital services trade, as a ma...
This paper aims to study the intricate interplay among the digital economy, industrial structure, and the degree of dependence on foreign trade. We utilize panel data from 284 prefecture-level cities in China spanning from 2011 to 2019 to comprehensi...
Against the backdrop of frequent global trade conflicts and accelerated competition in the digital economy, we investigated how trade friction shocks affect firms’ total factor productivity (TFP), with a focus on the role of digital transformat...
This study examines the mechanism of the digital economy on low-carbon trade competitiveness in China’s manufacturing sector using panel data from 30 provinces from 2011 to 2022, employing dynamic panel and moderated threshold model. The findin...
As a new engine for promoting the high-quality development of China’s foreign trade, digital trade provides new opportunities for enterprises’ low-carbon transition. Based on samples of export industrial enterprises listed in China from 2...
In the context of the increasing instability and uncertainty of the world economy, China’s energy security is threatened. It is important to study how to build the energy “internal circulation” for China’s sustainable developm...
This study examines how digital trade, technology, and Internet adoption impact financial sustainability across 41 Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries, using the generalized method of moments (GMM) for precise statistical analysis. It focuses on four...
Driven by the digital transformation of global value chains and the digital economy strategy outlined in China’s 14th Five-Year Plan, international trade competition is increasingly centered on digital technology ecosystems. This study addresse...
With the in-depth development of globalization and informatization, digital trade, as an emerging form of trade, is gradually reshaping the global economic landscape and becoming a new engine for driving economic growth. Among them, the impact of dig...
In the digital economy era, artificial intelligence, big data, and 5G are widely applied across various industries. The deep integration of digitalization and traditional sectors has been facilitated by this trend, which has injected new momentum int...
This study analyzes OECD input–output data and UNCTAD database information to assess the impact of Sino-Russian digital trade on China’s position in the global value chain (GVC). The findings indicate that digital trade between China and...
Against the backdrop of digital transformation, this study constructs an analytical framework for the influence mechanism of the data-driven dynamic capabilities of foreign trade SMEs from the perspective of digital intelligence immunity, aiming to c...
High-quality development of service trade (HDST) is becoming increasingly important for China’s high-quality development (HD). This builds new development patterns and cultivates new competitive advantages. In the digital economy (DE) era, HDST...
25 November 2025
The rapid expansion of digital trade presents transformative opportunities for South-South cooperation, particularly between China and West Africa. However, emerging new risks in technological, institutional, and sociocultural domains pose significan...
This study explores the impact and mechanism of the digital economy on the tourism service trade. We adopted two-way fixed effects and mediating effects models, and conducted empirical studies based on panel data of 30 provinces (municipalities and a...
Digital financial services have transformed consumer financial behavior, yet their effects on sustainable development outcomes remain poorly understood. This study examines how mobile financial services (MFS) usage influences financial behaviors acro...
Digital trade (DT), a key component of today’s digital economy, is pivotal in attaining “carbon neutrality and carbon peaking”, essential for low-carbon and high-quality growth. This study delves into the intermediary role of carbon...
2 September 2025
This paper examines the risks linked to E-business collaboration between China and West Africa, with particular emphasis on Ghana as a pivotal digital commerce centre. This research employs the Hesitant Fuzzy Best–Worst Method (HF-BWM) to syste...
NBA (National Basketball Association) trading cards are a hot collector’s item, with sales increasing rapidly every year. However, with the popularity of online trading, some sellers have started to intentionally and unintentionally sell imitat...
The current article summarizes the main properties of stablecoins and explores their potential use in digital platforms to solve problems of supporting foreign trade and investment processes in countries subjected to restrictions on a wide range of i...
1 September 2021
Digital trading apps are evidence of developing open innovations in the financial sector. The investment industry (including banks and brokers) can greatly benefit from the utilization of digital trading applications and corresponding tools, such as...
Enhancing digital connectivity, advancing cross-border e-commerce (CE), and optimizing logistics performance (LP) are fundamental pillars for boosting trade flows between trading partners. However, the multifaceted impacts of digitalization, CE, and...
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