Can e-commerce mitigate the negative impact of COVID-19 on international trade?

Kazunobu Hayakawa, Hiroshi Mukunoki and Shujiro Urata

The Japanese Economic Review, 2023, vol. 74, issue 2, No 1, 215-232

Abstract: Abstract This study aims to empirically investigate the role of E-commerce (EC) on the trade impacts of COVID-19. To this end, we estimate gravity equations for bilateral trade among 34 reporting countries and their 145 partner countries during January–August in 2019 and 2020. Our major findings can be summarized as follows. A larger number of confirmed cases or deaths in both importing and exporting countries significantly decrease international trade. However, we found that EC development in importing countries contributes to mitigating this negative effect of COVID-19 on trade while that in exporting countries does not. These results are robust for our use of multiple measures of EC development.

Keywords: COVID-19; E-commerce; Trade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F15 F53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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