This paper analyzes the relationship between information and communication technology (ICT) and energy demand. We …. Using up to 2889 country-industry observations, we find that: (1) ICT capital is associated with a significant reduction in … energy demand. (2) This relationship differs with regard to different types of energy. ICT use is not significantly …

ICT is a key performance factor in developed countries. This PhD thesis focuses on the adoption of ICTs and their … order to identify the determinants of ICT adoption. Human capital seems to be the most significant explanatory variable … the level of ICT adoption and profitability. In a third study, many Probit models (simple, ordered and multivariate) were …

stylised facts are considered: globalisation, information technology, and competition. Globalisation and information technology …

investment and adoption of information and communications technology (ICT), a sub-group of M&E and the foundation for … investment in ICT combined with lower competition, lower spending in R&D, and barriers to foreign direct investment to be …Machinery and equipment (M&E) is one of the imperative factors that influence Canada’s living standards. M&E investment …

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is increasingly recognised as an essential tool of development a tool … development (or e-Development) is measured not only by the diffusion of technology, but also by advances in development itself …. The contribution of ICT can be viewed at two different but interrelated levels : ICT growth and ICT diffusion. The former …

ICT. We thus precisely try to estimate what are the specific impacts of these two channels and their shares in total …, management and organization. For this, we specify an extended production function relating productivity explicitly to R&D and ICT … capital as well as to upstream regulations, and two factor demand functions relating R&D and ICT capital to upstream …

ICT productive performances have slowed down since the beginning of the 2000s, before the current crisis. This … diagnosis could be due, at least partly, to some statistical mis-measurements of ICT improvements. Nevertheless, improvements in … ICT performances will probably be positively impacted, in some years, by large technological developments as for example …

We investigate the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) on local loan officers� autonomy in … dataset including about 300 Italian banks, we show that banks equipped with more ICT capital and resorting to credit scoring … higher ICT capital endowments and adopt credit scoring. …

KLEMS database. I distinguish between three types of capital: information and communication technologies (ICT), intellectual … types of capital and allow for differences in the elasticities of substitution between labor, an aggregate of ICT and IP … capital, and traditional capital. The estimated elasticities of substitution between ICT and IP capital are strictly below one …