U.S.-China Cooperative Research on Trade and Telecommunication in Greater China

本项目是对中国大陆、台湾、香港和澳门之间的贸易和电信流量进行实证研究。它解决了最近关于生产性服务贸易和知识溢出在经济增长中的作用的工作所提出的理论问题。这项研究的目的是查明是否可以假设生产服务贸易构成国际电信通信量的很大一部分来解释国际电信通信量和平衡。如果这个假设成立，那么进出口流量的平衡应该与商品贸易平衡和要素禀赋有明确的关系。该项目涉及中国、美国、香港和台湾的研究人员的合作。这项研究的结果将有助于贸易理论、经济增长理论和对国际电信服务监管最佳框架的理解。

The proposed project is an empirical study of trade and telecommunications traffic between China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao. It addresses theoretical issues raised by recent work on trade in producer services and the role of knowledge spillover in economic growth. The study is designed to find out whether the volume and balance of international telecommunications traffic can be explained by assuming that trade in producer services constitutes a significant portion of that traffic. If this assumption is valid, then the balance of incoming nd outgoing traffic should be related in a definite way to the commodities trade balance and to factor endowments. This project involves collaboration between researchers in China, the US, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Results of this study should contribute to trade theory, theories of economic growth, and understanding of the optimal framework for regulation of international telecommunications services.