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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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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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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 …
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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 …
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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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Firms invest huge amounts into intangible assets. This paper explores to which extent different kinds of intangible assets are conducive to firm-level productivity. Our study contributes to the literature by simultaneously comparing productivity effects of innovative capital, human capital,...
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In this study we use import penetration as a proxy for foreign competition in order to empirically analyze (1) the impact of foreign competition on managerial compensation, (2) differences in the impact between Germany and the U.S. and (3) whether the impact of import penetration is driven by...
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This paper analyzes the relationship between information and communication technology (ICT) and energy demand. We …. Using up to 2889 country-industry observations, we find that: (1) ICT capital is associated with a significant reduction in … energy demand. (2) This relationship differs with regard to different types of energy. ICT use is not significantly …
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During the last 20 years, R&D and innovation activities in the service sector have clearly increased. Especially business services are believed to be one of the main drivers of technical changes and economic progress. Looking at the labour indices calculated over the period from 1982 to 1996 one...
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authority and ICT-enabled organizational changes). This paper analyzes the impact of organizational change as well as the impact … of the introduction of information and communication technology (ICT) on actual labor demand as well as on employment … all skill groups except for unskilled labor. New ICT and the share of training expenditures are primary forces behind OC …
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