Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Chinese government has been focusing its efforts on fostering the digital economy by emphasizing digital technologies such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing, big data and 5G.President Xi Jinping stressed the need to expand artificial...

In this report the JPMorgan Chase Institute assembled one of the largest samples of participants in the Online Platform Economy to date: over 240,000 de-identified individuals who earned income between October 2012 and June 2016 from one or more of 42 different platforms. Our findings point to...

Impact of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) on economic growth, recently attracted high research intererst. Thus, it has been found that in the case of developed European economies the considered impact is significant. In general, ICT diffusion has significant impact on the...

In this paper it will be attempted to show econometrically that electronic commerce (e-commerce) has a positive impact on economic growth at country level, since e-commerce promotes sales (and thus consumption), that in turn improves company performance, thus causing ultimately economic growth....