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This paper assesses how the adoption of a range of digital technologies affects firm productivity. It combines cross-country firm-level data on productivity and industry-level data on digital technology adoption in an empirical framework that accounts for firm heterogeneity. The results provide...
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The productivity-enhancing effects of digitalisation have generated increased interest in the promotion of digital technologies. This report provides different estimations for euro area countries of the impact of digital uptake on productivity at firm level, showing that the adoption of digital...
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Competition policy and enforcement need to be able to keep pace with business models that have emerged in the digital age. Fittingly, Canada is in the midst of a review of its Competition Act that is addressing this question.A key goal of any reform should be to deter anti-competitive practices...
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Advancements in information and communications technologies have changed the way individuals, firms, and nations create and exchange value across borders. Value comes in the form of goods, services, information, and data, but may also include talent, capital, ideas, and even culture. Southeast...
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Since the industrial revolution, technological innovations have enabled rise in productivity, employment, standard of living and the tota l population several times. In the last 15 years productivity growth ha s slowed-down in the most of large economies, probably due to slo w diffusion of...
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The report provides an overview and an analysis of the state of digitalization in Austria's economy. The findings are mixed. Austria performs well in the manufacturing industries but is lagging in the service sector compared to the innovation leader countries of the “European Innovation...
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economy. SME are not only a new social pattern, but they won a well-defined position, especially due to their adaptation … industrial giants. The SME that are not subject to a serious process of automation cannot do e-business. It is not enough to have … should be used in as many operations within the company as possible. Romanian SME are just starting the journey on this way …
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The ubiquitous process of digitization changes economic competition on markets in several ways and leads to the … digital goods and markets. In Germany, national competition law was amended in 2017 in order to accommodate for digitization …
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