STEM-skill intensive and are associated with innovation, as well as with technology adoption, management, and diffusion … 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 …

The nexus between corruption and economic growth has been examined for a long time. Many empirical studies measured … corruption by the reversed Transparency International's Perception of Corruption Index (CPI) and ignored that the CPI was not … 2012-2018 and re-examine the nexus between corruption and economic growth. The cumulative long-run effect of corruption on …

This paper presents an analysis of the effect of bureaucratic corruption on economic growth through a public finance …. Corruption takes the form of the embezzlement of public funds, the effect of which is to increase the government's reliance on …

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 …

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 …

Can historical institutions affect today's firm innovation? We analyze a historical experiment in 1902, when the … industrial firms in China, we show that firms in locations historically affected by the CMC rules exhibit higher innovation … reduce local corruption and stimulate firms' investment in R&D and training to this day. We identify a causal effect by …

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 …