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New Technologies and Productivity Growth in the Euro Area

Vijselaar, Focco; Albers, Ronald M. - 2021

This paper provides an overview of the currently available evidence on the importance of information and communication technologies (ICT) for developments in productivity growth in the euro area. On the basis of the available data, there is evidence of an increased contribution of ICT to...

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Do R&D and ICT affect total factor productivity growth differently?

Edquist, Harald; Henrekson, Magnus - 2016

We analyze the effect of ICT and R&D on total factor productivity (TFP) growth across different industries in Sweden. R&D alone is significantly associated with contemporaneous TFP growth, thus exhibiting spillover effects. Although there is no significant short-run association between ICT and...

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The Economic Contribution of Information Technology : Towards Comparative and User Studies

Bresnahan, Timothy; Greenstein, Shane M. - 2014

observations about further areas of research. Key words: Measurement of technical change, Information technology, General purpose …

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Tech Reg : Rules for the Digital Economy

Evans, David S. - 2021

Tech Reg refers to the regulation of internet-connected digital businesses and the discipline that studies the when, and how, to do that. It covers areas as diverse as big tech, crypto, fintech, gig, misinformation, privacy, and telemedicine. It will expand over the coming decades as the digital...

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The productivity paradox : a meta-analysis

Polák, Petr - 2014

The impact of ICT (information and communication technology) on economic performance has been the subject of academic research for several decades, and despite the remarkable and significant innovation in computer technology, usage, and investments, only a small growth in productivity was...

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Digital Technologies and the Global Economy's Productivity Imperative

Labaye, Eric - 2016

Global GDP growth has been propelled by two key factors over the past 50 years: growth of the size of the overall labor force, which doubled in the G20 countries as a result of brisk population growth, and rising productivity. Over the next half century, from 2014-2064, as a result of declining...

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International R&D spillovers in transition countries : the impact of trade and foreign direct investment

Krammer, Marius Sorin (contributor) - 2008

While the economic theory predicts that developing countries will gain the most from technology spillovers, there have been only a few analyses looking at this question empirically. The present study focuses on a panel of 27 transition and 20 Western European countries between 1990 and 2006 and...

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The Decline of Computers As a General Purpose Technology : Why Deep Learning and the End of Moore’s Law are Fragmenting Computing

Thompson, Neil - 2019

It is a triumph of technology and of economics that our computer chips are so universal. Countless applications are only possible because of the staggering variety of calculations that modern chips can compute. But, this was not always the case. Computers used to be specialized, doing only...

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Fixed Cost, Imperfect Competition and Bias in Technology Measurement : Japan and The United States

Nishimura, Kiyohiko - 2000

. However, traditional measurement of technological progress assumes perfect competition and no fixed cost. This paper … incorporates these two factors in the technological-progress measurement and investigates the biases caused by their omission. We … measurement underestimates the true technological progress. We apply this methodology to Japanese and US industries, and find that …

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Understanding productivity : a review of recent technical research

Dion, Richard (contributor); Fay, Robert (contributor) - 2008

The authors provide an extensive review of the rapidly expanding research on productivity, both at the macro and micro levels. They focus primarily on papers written about Canada, but also draw on selected studies from other countries, especially the United States, where such work sheds...

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