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Information Technology Use and Productivity at the Individual Level
Gandal, Neil; King III, Charles; Alstyne, Marshall W. Van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
IT are more productive, and if heavier users of IT are indeed more productive, how does this increase in productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124149
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Americans Do I.T. Better: US Multinationals and the Productivity Miracle
Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
The US has experienced a sustained increase in productivity growth since the mid-1990s, particularly in sectors that … intensively use information technologies (IT). This has not occurred in Europe. If the US “productivity miracle” is due to a … abroad. This paper shows in fact that US multinationals operating in the UK do have higher productivity than non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005114281
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Foreign Ownership and Productivity: New Evidence from the Service Sector and the R&D Lab
Griffith, Rachel; Redding, Stephen J.; Simpson, Helen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
This Paper examines the relationship between foreign ownership and productivity, paying particular attention to two … productivity than foreign multinationals, but the difference is less stark in the service sector than in the production sector, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124197
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Are the Benefits of Export Support Durable? Evidence from Tunisia
Cadot, Olivier; Fernandes, Ana; Gourdon, Julien; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
This paper evaluates the effects of the FAMEX export promotion program in Tunisia on the performance of beneficiary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084401
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Innovative Activity in Wind and Solar Technology: Empirical Evidence on Knowledge Spillovers Using Patent Data
Braun, Frauke G; Schmidt-Ehmcke, Jens; Zloczysti, Petra - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
This paper studies technological change in renewable energies, providing empirical evidence on the determinants of innovative activity with a special emphasis on the role of knowledge spillovers. We investigate two major renewable energy technologies wind and solar across a panel of 21 OECD...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468596
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On the Distribution of Income and Worker Assignment under Intra-Firm Spillovers, with an Application to Ideas And Networks
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
human capital, productivity and creativity, i.e. the ability to produce ideas that may be duplicated over a network. Under …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123995
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It's Not What You Make, It's How You Use IT: Measuring the Welfare Benefits of the IT Revolution Across Countries
Bayoumi, Tamim; Haacker, Markus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
This Paper analyses the welfare benefits from falling relative prices of IT (Information Technology) goods across a wide range of countries. Using two separate methodologies and datasets, we find that welfare benefits mainly accrue to users of IT, not their producers, because of falling relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124148
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Information Technology, Organisational Change and Productivity
Crespi, Gustavo; Criscuolo, Chiara; Haskel, Jonathan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
We examine the relationships between productivity growth, IT investment and organisational change (DO) using UK firm … effect on productivity growth, (c) non-IT investment and DO do not interact in their effect on productivity growth. Some new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136706
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The Demand for Coordination
Dessein, Wouter; Santos, Jesus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
This paper endogenizes coordination problems in organizations by allowing for both ex ante coordination of activities, using rules and task guidelines, and ex post coordination, using communication and broad job assignments. It shows that: (i) Task specialization and the division of labour is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005497860
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Mobile Phone Coverage and Producer Markets: Evidence from West Africa
Aker, Jenny; Fafchamps, Marcel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
Expansion in mobile phone coverage has improved access to information throughout the developing world, particularly within sub-Saharan Africa. The existing evidence suggests that information technology has improved market efficiency and reduced consumer prices for certain commodities. There are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083580