Knowledge Diffusion in the Network of International Business Travel
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Coscia, Michele, Frank M. H Neffke, and Ricardo Hausmann. 2020. “Knowledge Diffusion in the Network of International Business Travel.” Nature Human Behaviour 4 (10): 1011–20. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-0922-x.Abstract
We use aggregated and anonymized information based on international expenditures through corporate payment cards to map the network of global business travel. We combine this network with information on the industrial composition and export baskets of national economies. The business travel network helps predict which economic activities will grow in a country, which new activities will develop and which old activities will be abandoned. In statistical terms, business travel has the most significant impact among a range of bilateral relations between countries, such as trade, foreign direct investments and migration. Moreover, our analysis suggests that this impact is causal: business travel from countries specializing in a specific industry causes growth in that economic activity in the destination country. Our interpretation of this is that business travel helps diffuse knowledge and we use our estimates to assess which countries contribute or benefit most from the knowledge diffusion through global business travel.Terms of Use
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