E-COMMERCE IMPACT ON ECONOMIC GROWTH
Date Issued
2020-11-14
Author(s)
Parishev, Aleksandar
Hristovski, Goran
Jolakoski, Petar
DOI
http://doi.org/10.47063/EBTSF.2020.0017
Abstract
Ever since the dawn of merchanting, traders have sought ways to ease the cost of transactions. The recent growth of information and communication technology provided a wide range of solutions for international and national transactions by introducing e-commerce. As a result of this development, e-commerce recently emerged as a dominant transaction activity with a significant impact on the national economies. In recent years the potential of e-commerce has been widely discussed, with a particular focus on its effects on greater economic welfare and prosperity. Yet, despite an abundance of studies that have been done on investigating the role of e-commerce in an economy, a thorough and detailed econometric examination on its impact is still an underexplored avenue. This paper attempts to bridge this gap by investigating the impact of volume of online transactions (e-commerce) and gross capital formation on economic growth, using panel data on 31 European countries covering a 16 years’ period. The empirical panel data model is estimated by employing the Generalized Method of Moments. The main findings from the study show that e-commerce and gross capital formation have positive and significant effects on GDP per capita based on purchasing power parity, with e-commerce having a weaker development-enhancing effect in comparison to gross capital formation. In addition, this paper proposes a fruitful discussion on how to provide balance between the growth of e-commerce, the focus on improving other aspects and generating optimal economic welfare and prosperity. Our paper ends with directions for future research.
File(s)![Thumbnail Image]()
Loading...
Name
EBTSF-20_paper_16.pdf
Size
475.64 KB
Format
Adobe PDF
Checksum
(MD5):9053faa8371532c13f33e88e6b39afc1