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The contribution of intangible assets to sectoral productivity growth in the EU
Niebel, Thomas; O'Mahony, Mary; Saam, Marianne - 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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319609
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The contribution of intangible assets to sectoral productivity growth in the EU
Niebel, Thomas; O'Mahony, Mary; Saam, Marianne - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957586
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Are intangibles more productive in ICT-intensive industries? Evidence from EU countries
Chen, Wen; Niebel, Thomas; Saam, Marianne - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010420390
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ICT and economic growth: Comparing developing, emerging and developed countries
Niebel, Thomas - 2014
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/10010460698
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ICT and resilience in times of crisis: Evidence from cross-country micro moments data
Bertschek, Irene; Polder, Michael; Schulte, Patrick - 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/10011702776
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Are intangibles more productive in ICT-intensive industries? Evidence from EU countries
Chen, Wen; Niebel, Thomas; Saam, Marianne - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957594
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ICT and economic growth: Comparing developing, emerging and developed countries
Niebel, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
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/10011122567
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The economic impacts of telecommunications networks and broadband internet: A survey
Bertschek, Irene; Briglauer, Wolfgang; Hüschelrath, Kai; … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523997
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Productivity of ICT and non-ICT capital: The role of rates of return and capital prices
Niebel, Thomas; Saam, Marianne - 2011
countries in the period of 1990 - 2007. We introduce a constant rate of return to capital and a constant rate of ICT price … - 2000. Moreover, we show that more than half of the ICT contribution to labor productivity growth results from growth in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307849
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Productivity of ICT and non-ICT capital: The role of rates of return and capital prices
Niebel, Thomas; Saam, Marianne - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
countries in the period of 1990 - 2007. We introduce a constant rate of return to capital and a constant rate of ICT price … - 2000. Moreover, we show that more than half of the ICT contribution to labor productivity growth results from growth in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646595