We study whether technology gains in sectors related to Information and Communications Technology (ICT) increase … productivity in the rest of the economy. To separate exogenous gains in ICT from other technological progress, we use the relative … price of ICT goods and services in a structural VAR with medium-run restrictions. Using local projections to estimate the …

Does access to information and communication technologies (ICT) increase innovation? We examine this question by … induced by ICT are exclusively science-related and stem from fields where knowledge can be codified easily. In contrast, we …

in ICT for urban structure. We find robust evidence that increases in the number of telephone lines per capita lead to a …

effect goes beyond the employment of R&D workers, extending to ICT and other techies. In non-manufacturing firms, the impact … of techies on productivity operates mostly through ICT and other techies, not R&D workers. Engineers have a greater …

KLEMS database. I distinguish between three types of capital: information and communication technologies (ICT), intellectual … types of capital and allow for differences in the elasticities of substitution between labor, an aggregate of ICT and IP … capital, and traditional capital. The estimated elasticities of substitution between ICT and IP capital are strictly below one …

This paper studies how information and communication technology (ICT) affects the firm geographic organization and its … implications on aggregate efficiency. ICT can widen firms' geographic span of control by reducing their internal communication … firms endogenously adopt ICT, choose multiple production locations, and trade domestically. I estimate the model by …