The role of digital intermediation platforms in opening up international markets

Reader’s guide

1.1. Acronyms

 

Acronym	Full term
BEA	Bureau of Economic Analysis (United States)
DEPA	Digital Economy Partnership Agreement
DFFT	Data Free Flow with Trust
DIP	Digital intermediation platform
DPC	Digital Policy Committee (OECD)
DSI	Digital Society Initiative (OECD-Korea)
DSTRI	Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index (OECD)
GDP	Gross domestic product
HHI	Herfindahl-Hirschman Index
ICT	Information and communication technologies
IMF	International Monetary Fund
INDIGO-t	Index of Digital Trade Integration and Openness – trade component (OECD)
IPR	Intellectual property rights
ISIC	International Standard Industrial Classification
NRI	Networked Readiness Index (World Economic Forum)
OECD	Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
PMR	Product Market Regulation (indicators)
PPP	Purchasing power parity
PSD2	Payment Services Directive 2 (European Union)
STRI	Services Trade Restrictiveness Index (OECD)
UNCTAD	United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
USD	United States dollar
VIF	Variance inflation factor
WPDEMA	Working Party on Digital Economics, Measurement and Analysis (OECD)
WTO	World Trade Organization
X2C	Business-to-consumer or consumer-to-consumer

1.2. Abbreviations

This report uses ISO codes for countries and economies in figures.

ISO 3-letter code	Country name
AUS	Australia
AUT	Austria
BEL	Belgium
CAN	Canada
CHE	Switzerland
CHL	Chile
COL	Colombia
CRI	Costa Rica
CZE	Czechia
DEU	Germany
DNK	Denmark
ESP	Spain
EST	Estonia
FIN	Finland
FRA	France
GBR	United Kingdom
GRC	Greece
HUN	Hungary
IRL	Ireland
ISL	Iceland
ISR	Israel
ITA	Italy
JPN	Japan
KOR	Korea
LTU	Lithuania
LUX	Luxembourg
LVA	Latvia
MEX	Mexico
NLD	Netherlands
NOR	Norway
NZL	New Zealand
POL	Poland
PRT	Portugal
SVK	Slovak Republic
SVN	Slovenia
SWE	Sweden
TUR	Republic of Türkiye
USA	United States