Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/286827 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Citation: 
[Journal:] Review of World Economics [ISSN:] 1610-2886 [Volume:] 157 [Issue:] 3 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Berlin, Heidelberg [Year:] 2021 [Pages:] 631-665
Publisher: 
Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
This is the first paper that analyzes for a global sample of countries how trade agreements that include technology-related provisions impact exports of goods, and how this impact differs depending on the technology content of the goods. It includes estimations of a structural gravity model for a panel of 176 countries over the period 1995–2015. The model differentiates between provisions relating technology transfer, technical cooperation, research and development, and patents and intellectual property rights. It also estimates the differences in these effects depending on whether the trade flow in question is between countries with similar or different levels of development. The main results indicate that regional trade agreements (RTAs) that contain technology provisions generate a significantly higher volume of trade than RTAs that do not, after controlling for the depth of the RTAs. For countries that ratify RTAs that include such provisions, it is exports of technology-intensive goods that increase the most. Trade agreements including such provisions have a heterogeneous effect that varies by income level of the trading partners and depends on the extent to which the RTA incorporates other provisions.
Subjects: 
Trade agreements
Technology provisions
Gravity model
Intellectual propoerty rights
Technology-intensive goods
RTA
JEL: 
F13
F15
O33
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Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Published Version

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