Daveri, Francesco - In: CESifo economic studies : CESifo, a joint initiative of … 50 (2004) 3, pp. 397-421
This paper explores the quantitative plausibility of three candidate explanations for the European productivity slowdown with respect to the US. The empirical plausibility of the common wisdom on the topic (the IT usageʺ hypothesis) is found to crucially depend on how IT-using industries are...