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US Exports of Knowledge‐intensive Services and Importing‐country Characteristics
Author(s) -
Co Catherine Yap
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
review of international economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.513
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1467-9396
pISSN - 0965-7576
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9396.2007.00703.x
Subject(s) - per capita , gross domestic product , product (mathematics) , business , politics , quality (philosophy) , per capita income , property rights , financial services , economics , international trade , international economics , finance , economic growth , political science , population , philosophy , demography , geometry , mathematics , epistemology , sociology , law , microeconomics
This paper studies the determinants of US exports of knowledge‐intensive services. Using US export data to as many as 29 countries between 1989 and 2002, I find the following. First, gross product and per capita income have heterogeneous effects on affiliated and non‐affiliated exports of knowledge‐intensive services. Secondly, property rights protection matters. Thirdly, infrastructure quality and political institutions only matter in the transfer of knowledge assets. Finally, financial depth is only correlated with the export of services to non‐affiliates.