productivity in the public sector using a new panel data set of police departments covering 1987-2003. While IT adoption is …-level characteristics and the endogeneity of IT use. IT investments do, however, appear to improve police productivity when complemented …

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 …

three questions (a) What is the source of knowledge flows? (b) To what extent do such flows contribute to productivity …

How big a boost to long run growth can countries expect from the ICT revolution? I use the results of growth accounting …-sector model is required because of the very rapid rate at which the prices of ICT products have fallen in the past and are … expected to fall in the future. According to the two-sector model, the main boost to growth comes from ICT use, not ICT …

Studies of firm-level data have shown that there is a huge dispersion of productivity across firms even when industries … productive. The formers’ convergence could therefore constitute an important part of productivity growth at the macroeconomic … which can explain it. Productivity convergence was stronger for labour productivity than for total factor productivity. But …

We use a new industry-level dataset to quantify the role of ICT in explaining productivity growth in the UK, 1970 … productivity growth in the market sector. Econometric evidence also supports an important role for ICT. We also find econometric … that ICT capital played an increasingly important, and in the 1990s the dominant, role in accounting for labour …

productivity. The “Solow Paradox” of the absence of an impact of ICT on productivity no longer holds, if it ever did. Both growth … estimates suggest a much larger impact of ICT on productivity than would be expected from the standard neoclassical model that … accounting and econometric evidence suggest an important role for ICTs in accounting for productivity. In fact, the empirical …