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The Diffusion of Technological Progress in ICT
Elstner, Steffen; Grimme, Christian; Kecht, Valentin; … - 2021
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...
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Effect of Information and Communication Technologies on Urban Structure
Ioannides, Yannis M.; Overman, Henry G.; … - 2021
Two innovations in the last century have changed dramatically the cost of communicating and transmitting information: The first is the widespread adoption of telephony; the second is the internet. We study the implications of these changes in ICT for urban structure. We find robust evidence that...
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On the Elasticity of Substitution between Labor and ICT and IP Capital and Traditional Capital
Jerbashian, Vahagn - 2022
I estimate CES aggregate production functions for the US, the UK, Japan, Germany, and Spain using data from the EU KLEMS database. I distinguish between three types of capital: information and communication technologies (ICT), intellectual property (IP) capital, and traditional capital. I assume...
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A Model for International Spillovers to Emerging Markets
Houssa, Romain - 2019
This paper develops a small open economy (SOE) dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model that helps to explain business cycle synchronization between an emerging market and advanced economies. The model captures the specificities of both economies (e.g. primary commodity,...
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How productive is public capital?: a meta-analysis
Bom, Pedro R. D.; Ligthart, Jenny E. - 2008
The paper analyzes the contribution of public capital to private output using several meta-analytical techniques. Both fixed and random effects models are estimated by Weighted Least Squares. Sample overlap across studies is explicitly controlled for by employing a full' Generalized Least...
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The business environment in the transition
Carlin, Wendy; Schaffer, Mark - 2012
faced and their business environment. The business environment includes physical infrastructure, the availability of an …
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Pork, Infrastructure and Growth : Evidence from the Italian Railway Expansion
Bonfatti, Roberto; Facchini, Giovanni; Tarasov, Alexander; … - 2021
This paper studies the role played by politics in shaping the Italian railway network, and its impact on long-run growth patterns. Examining a large state-planned railway expansion that took place during the second half of the 19th century in a recently unified country, we first study how both...
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The Macroeconomic Effects of Funding U.S. Infrastructure
Malley, James R.; Philippopoulos, Apostolis - 2022
This paper quantitatively assesses the macroeconomic effects of the recently agreed U.S. bipartisan infrastructure … types of infrastructure spending and linkages between the final and intermediate goods sectors. We find that infrastructure … multipliers above unity if infrastructure spending and rising public debt are financed by consumption, dividend and labour income …
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Trade in Information Technologies and Changes in the Demand for Occupations
Jerbashian, Vahagn - 2021
I use data from the World Input-Output Database and show that trade in information technologies (IT) has a significant contribution to the growth in foreign intermediate goods in the 2001-2014 period. China has strongly contributed to the rise in trade in IT and has become one of the major...
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ICT, Collaboration, and Science-Based Innovation : Evidence from BITNET
Wernsdorf, Kathrin; Nagler, Markus; Watzinger, Martin - 2021
Does access to information and communication technologies (ICT) increase innovation? We examine this question by exploiting the staggered adoption of BITNET across U.S. universities in the 1980s. BITNET, an early version of the Internet, enabled e-mail-based knowledge exchange and collaboration...
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