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  • 경제배움
  • Economic

    Information

    and Education

    Center

최신자료
Digital Network Centrality and the Structure of Goods Trade
CEPR
2026.04.08
This paper studies how digital infrastructure is associated with the spatial structure of international trade in goods. We embed data availability into a structural gravity framework, conceptualizing it as an information friction that interacts with geographic distance and equilibrium market access. Using the topology of the global subsea cable network, we construct country-level measures of digital network position. We find that countries with greater digital network embeddedness, particularly on the exporter side, exhibit lower distance elasticities of trade. Other dimensions of digital connectivity are more closely associated with multilateral resistance, highlighting distinct channels through which digital infrastructure affects goods trade.