The Effect of Internet on Chinese Firm's Export and Its Analysis

HAN Hui-chao

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May 2021

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HAN Hui-chao. The Effect of Internet on Chinese Firm's Export and Its Analysis[J]. Journal of Guangdong University of Finance & Economics, 2019, 34(1): 38-45.

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HAN Hui-chao. The Effect of Internet on Chinese Firm's Export and Its Analysis[J]. Journal of Guangdong University of Finance & Economics, 2019, 34(1): 38-45.

HAN Hui-chao. The Effect of Internet on Chinese Firm's Export and Its Analysis[J]. Journal of Guangdong University of Finance & Economics, 2019, 34(1): 38-45.

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HAN Hui-chao. The Effect of Internet on Chinese Firm's Export and Its Analysis[J]. Journal of Guangdong University of Finance & Economics, 2019, 34(1): 38-45.

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The Effect of Internet on Chinese Firm's Export and Its Analysis

HAN Hui-chao

School of Business, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China

Received Date: 2018-11-05
Available Online: 2021-05-31
Publish Date: 2019-01-28

Abstract

Abstract

As a major external impact of technology, internet development impacts firms' export behavior, mainly embodied by the market-entry effect in static terms and the market-penetration effect in dynamic terms. Based on the empirical study of hyperlink data between China and trade destination countries, this study shows that the application of internet significantly reduces the blocking influence of geographical space, and increases the probability of enterprises entering the export market by 22.3 percent. In a dynamic sense, export enterprises achieve market growth by 59.4 percent in the second year after the entry into foreign market through the resource adjustment via internet using, and anchor their existence in the foreign market as a result. It is also showed that the internet effects vary across countries with different income levels when Chinese enterprises enter such markets. In the policy sense, China should deepen the internet plus strategy to enhance new export trade advantages.
- internet,
- internet effect,
- international trade,
- Chinese enterprises,
- export market,
- internet plus,
- market entry effect,
- market penetration effect

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