Digital Economy Development, Entrepreneurship Spirit and Foreign Trade Resilience
DENG Zongbing1,2, CAO Yufu1, XIAO Qinlin1, WANG Ju1
1. School of Economic and Management,Southwest University,Chongqing 400715,China; 2. Research Center for Inclusive Finance and Agricultural and Rural Development,Southwest University,Chongqing 400715,China
Abstract Incorporating the entrepreneurial spirit into the analysis framework for enhancing the resilience of urban foreign trade, this paper explores the main paths and mechanisms of the digital economy driving the enhancement of foreign trade resilience from the perspectives of entrepreneurial innovation and entrepreneurial spirit. The results show that the digital economy has significantly enhanced the resilience of urban foreign trade, with a greater effect on enhancing the resilience of urban imports than exports. The digital economy has a greater resilience driving effect on cities, peripheral cities, small-scale cities, and weakly resilient cities in the central and western regions, with obvious inclusive characteristics. After further dividing China’s digital economy into development stages, research has shown that the empowering effect of digital economy on foreign trade resilience weakens when it enters a mature stage from a high-speed growth stage. The analysis of influence mechanism indicates that entrepreneur innovation and entrepreneurial spirit are important channels for digital economy to empower foreign trade resilience, and the effect of entrepreneur innovation spirit mechanism is stronger. The nonlinear impact analysis manifests that the digital economy has a threshold effect on the resilience of foreign trade. With the improvement of the level of digital economy development and entrepreneurship, it is characterized by diminishing marginal effect. At present, the development level of digital economy and entrepreneurship in most cities have crossed the “critical value”. The study provides empirical support and beneficial inspiration for how to stimulate and cultivate entrepreneurship through orderly development of digital economy under the new development pattern, so as to enable the resilience of foreign trade, and provides decision-making reference for realizing high-quality development of regional foreign trade and building a trade power.
DENG Zongbing,CAO Yufu,XIAO Qinlin et al. Digital Economy Development, Entrepreneurship Spirit and Foreign Trade Resilience. Economic Survey, 2024, 41(3): 068.
2024, Vol. 41 
