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The Economic Impacts of Telecommunications Networks and Broadband Internet : A Survey
Bertschek, Irene - 2016
We provide a structured overview of the quantitative literature on the economic impacts of telecommunications networks and broadband internet. Differentiating between wireline and wireless technologies as well as broadband availability and broadband adoption, respectively, we review studies...
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A Global Decline in Research Productivity? Evidence from China and Germany
Hünermund, Paul - 2020
In a recent paper, Bloom et al. (2020) find evidence for a substantial decline in research productivity in the U.S. economy during the last 40 years. In this paper, we replicate their findings for China and Germany, using detailed firm-level data spanning three decades. Our results indicate that...
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Are Intangibles More Productive in ICT-Intensive Industries? Evidence from EU Countries
Chen, Wen - 2014
industries with varying degrees of ICT intensity. Intangible capital appears to be significantly more productive in ICT …-intensive sectors than in those that use little ICT. This finding remains robust across various alternative industry ICT intensity … measures and aligns with the prior firm-level studies that place emphasis on the complementary role of intangible assets in ICT …
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ICT and Economic Growth – Comparing Developing, Emerging and Developed Countries
Niebel, Thomas - 2018
This paper analyzes the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) on economic growth in developing … regressions confirm the positive relationship between ICT capital and GDP growth. The regressions for the subsamples of developing …, emerging and developed countries do not reveal statistically significant differences of the output elasticity of ICT between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012937506
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ICT and Resilience in Times of Crisis : Evidence from Cross-Country Micro Moments Data
Bertschek, Irene - 2017
ICT-intensive firms are often found to have a better performance than their non-ICTintensive counterparts. Along with … investing in ICT capital they have to adapt their production and business processes in order to reap the potentials implied by … the use of ICT. Are these firms also more resilient in times of crisis? We study this question by exploiting a novel and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012949855
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The Contribution of Intangible Assets to Sectoral Productivity Growth in the EU
Niebel, Thomas - 2013
In this paper we report on new data on intangible investment at the level of 1-digit NACE industries of 10 EU countries. The data are constructed as a sectoral breakdown of the INTANInvest database, which contains measures of intangible investment at the level of the aggregate business sector....
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Does IT Outsourcing Increase Firm Success? An Empirical Assessment Using Firm-Level Data
Ohnemus, Jörg - 2014
Using German firm-level data, an endogenous switching regression model within a production function framework is estimated in order to explore differences in labor productivity between IT outsourcing and non-IT outsourcing firms. This approach takes possible complementarities between IT...
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Why Do Firms Train Apprentices? The Net Cost Puzzle Reconsidered
Mohrenweiser, Jens - 2009
This paper investigates the short-term costs and benefits of apprenticeship training in Germany. It calls into question the popular stylised fact that apprenticeship training always leads to net costs during the apprenticeship period. We analyse the impact of the proportion of different...
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Drivers for International Innovation Activities in Developed and Emerging Countries
Schmiele, Anja - 2013
The internationalisation of corporate R&D is an opportunity for firms to reach local knowledge and expertise which is distributed globally. Firms' innovation activities which are carried out abroad comprise either the localization of uniform products to local needs with locally available...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014201135
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Innovation Success of Non-R&D-Performers : Substituting Technology by Management in SMEs
Rammer, Christian; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Spielkamp, Alfred - 2015
This paper investigates the impact of in-house R&D and innovation management practices on innovation success in small and medium-sized firms (SMEs). While there is little doubt about the significance of technology competence for generating successful innovations, inhouse R&D activities may be a...
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