The paper, mostly empirical in nature, investigates issues on cross-national new information and communication technologies (ICTs) adoption patterns and growth directions. In the period of 2000-2010, a great number of countries underwent substantial changes on the field of ICTs implementation....

In this paper we use a novel IO model to show changes in market power that indicate the character of convergence in the digital economy. We show how changing business strategies, including shifts in investment practices, accommodate modular approaches to business by realigning relationships...

The paper offers some reflections on the convergence of productivity in the United States and Europe, which essentially stopped in the 1990s. It argues that the barriers preventing further convergence in the early 1990s were removed subsequently. But since then trends in productivity growth have...

Businesses around the world are rapidly adopting digital technologies. Adoption, though, is not even, but it varies over time and differs from society to society, depending on resources in the ecosystem. This study addresses how past, present, and future digitalization is developing globally...

At a time when the forces of globalization and automation face a backlash in large parts of the developed world for their role in displacing jobs and spurring inequality and as movies figuring dystopian futures with robots dominating the future gain traction, the book The Great Convergence:...

Between 1820 and 1990, the share of world income going to today’s wealthy nations soared from twenty percent to almost seventy. Since then, that share has plummeted to where it was in 1900. As Richard Baldwin explains, this reversal of fortune reflects a new age of globalization that is...