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Acemoglu, Daron - 2010

Despite the major advances in information technology that have shaped the recent wave of globalization, openness to trade is still a political choice, and trade policy can change with shifts in domestic political equilibria. This paper suggests that a particular threat and a limiting factor to...

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Information Technology and the Japanese Economy

Jorgenson, Dale W. - 2005

the role of information technology (IT). We have adjusted Japanese data to conform to U.S. definitions in order to provide … contribution of total factor productivity growth from the IT sector in Japan also increased, while the contributions of labor input … and productivity growth from the Non-IT sector lagged far behind the United States. Our projection of potential economic …

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The Industry Origins of Japanese Economic Growth

Jorgenson, Dale W. - 2005

This paper presents new data on the sources of growth for the Japanese economy over the period 1960- 2000. The principal innovation is the incorporation of detailed information for individual industries, including those involved in the production of computers, communications equipment, and...

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Can IT be Japan's Savior?

Hayashi, Fumio - 2005

between non-IT and IT goods. The model is calibrated to the Japanese economy, and its solution path from 1990 on is compared … needs to direct 10% of private total hours to the IT sector …

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Why was Europe Left at the Station When America's Productivity Locomotive Departed?

Gordon, Robert J. - 2004

United States is in ICT-using industries like wholesale and retail trade and in securities trading. The contrast in retailing …

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Five Puzzles in the Behavior of Productivity, Investment, and Innovation

Gordon, Robert J. - 2004

temporary bubble in 2002-03. (2) Why did productivity growth accelerate after 2000 when the ICT investment boom was collapsing …

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The Case of the Missing Productivity Growth : Or, Does Information Technology Explain why Productivity Accelerated in the US but not the UK?

Basu, Susanto - 2003

communications technology (ICT) as a general purpose technology' can explain the divergent U.S. and U.K. TFP performance after 1995 …. GPT stories suggest that measured TFP should rise in ICT-using sectors, perhaps with long lags. Contemporaneously …, investments in ICT may in fact be associated with lower TFP as resources are diverted to reorganization and learning. In both the …

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Productivity, Computerization, and Skill Change

Wolff, Edward N. - 2002

Using pooled cross-section, time-series data for 44 industries over the decades of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s in the United States, I find no econometric evidence that computer investment is positively linked to TFP growth (over and above its inclusion in the TFP measure). However,...

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Population Growth, Technological Adoption and Economic Outcomes : A Theory of Cross-Country Differences for the Information Era

Beaudry, Paul - 2001

The object of this paper is to show how population growth, through its interaction with recent technological and organizational developments, can account for many of the cross-country differences in economic outcome observed among industrialized countries over the last 20 years. In particular,...

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Productivity Growth and the New Economy

Nordhaus, William D. - 2001

.65 percentage points for business output, and 1.18 percentage points for well-measured output. It is clear that the productivity …

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