Research On The Influence Of Internet Development Level On Service Export Complexity

In recent years,especially in China,the rapid development of the Internet has disruptively transformed society,with greatly reduced information access costs,unprecedented richness of information content,and increasingly intelligent algorithms that can accurately identify users’ preferences and "feed" them what they like.There are more and more articles on the Internet and international trade,but most of the current scholars study the relationship between the Internet and industrial manufacturing enterprises,and fewer focus on the development of the Internet and service trade exports,especially the Internet penetration rate of a country(region)and the quality of its service exports.Therefore,this paper attempts to clarify the relationship between Internet development and service export quality(technical complexity)from a new perspective,i.e.,from both theoretical and empirical aspects,to add to the research on foreign trade in services,which is where the innovation of this paper lies.After sorting out the theories related to the development of the Internet affecting the technical complexity of service exports,by browsing and reading a large amount of literature,this paper sorts out the theories about the development of the Internet and the technical complexity of exported service products,and then calculates the technical complexity of service exports based on relevant data from UNCTAD and World Bank databases from 2005-2019,combined with the theoretical model of previous scholars,put forward the thesis hypothesis,and then studied the relationship between Internet development and service export complexity through an empirical model,according to the results of Hausman test,chose to use a fixed-effects model to conduct an empirical study,conducted a heterogeneity analysis based on the differences in the degree of development of economies,shortened the sample observation period for stability testing,and finally chose a lagged one-period independent variable as an instrumental variables to reduce the endogeneity problem.Ultimately,the thesis hypothesis holds that the increase of Internet penetration in the sample countries(regions)can significantly enhance the technical complexity of service exports in that country(region);the penetration of Internet has a more significant effect on promoting the technical complexity of service exports in developed countries(regions),which makes the thesis hypothesis valid.