01662cas a2200253 a 4500 AALejournalIMF020899 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781513545851 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Mongardini, Joannes. Global Smartphones Sales May Have Peaked / Joannes Mongardini, Aneta Radzikowski. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2020. 1 online resource (20 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students Global smartphone sales may have peaked. After reaching nearly 1.5 billion units in 2016, global smartphone sales have since declined, contributing negatively to world trade in 2019 and suggesting that the global market may now be saturated. This paper develops a simple model to forecast smartphone sales, which shows that sales are likely to decline further. As tech companies shift to embedded services (cloud computing, content subscriptions, and financial services), the impact on global trade may also be shifting in favor of services exports mostly from advanced economies. Mode of access: Internet Radzikowski, Aneta. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2020/070 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2020/070/001.2020.issue-070-en.xml IMF e-Library