Understanding trade in digitized ideas — what are the statistical challenges?

However, much of this trade has eluded conventional categorization and new business models. In particular multinational firms have blurred the way international transactions can be recorded and how this can be transformed into relevant statistics for policy makers, research and for businesses themselves. Recent international statistical guidelines have suggested a number of improvements to better respond to policy information needs, including in the area of trade, innovation or culture. However, a number of questions remain unanswered. The objective of the paper is therefore to trace the conceptual and empirical statistical picture and assess the quality of existing statistics and the extent to which important trade in digitized ideas is inadequately measured. It discusses conceptual issues, and constraints encountered in gaining a full picture. A number of possible data collection and compilation solutions are suggested to enable a better understanding of this trade.

 

N°: ERSD-2016-11

Autores: Joscelyn Magdeleine and Andreas Maurer, WTO Secretariat

Fecha de redacción: julio de 2016

Palabras clave:

Trade, International, Ideas, Culture, Statistics, Digitization 

Código JEL:

C82, F14, F23, L23, L81, L82, L86, Z1

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