digitalization is inevitable to avoid trade diversion in an increasingly competitive globalized world. There are opportunities for …

The Internet stimulates trade. Using a gravity equation of trade among 56 countries, we find no evidence of an effect … of the Internet on total trade flows in 1995 and only weak evidence of an effect in 1996. However, we find an increasing … that the effect of the Internet on trade has been stronger for poor countries than for rich countries, and that there is …