In this paper, we analyse the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for Africa's trade in digitizable products, digitally deliverable services (DDSs), and e-commerce, and we outline the challenges of a digitally led recovery from the pandemic for African countries. The analysis is based on...

This paper argues that investment-specific technological progress (ISTP) conventionally identified with the relative price of investment, inevitably correlate with neutral technological progress in heterogeneous production networks. Consequently, the ISTP is an elusive concept to examine the...

We investigate how improvements in organizations’ internal communication technology affect their voluntary disclosure, a form of external communication. By developing a model with a headquarters manager and several divisional managers, we formalize two competing economic forces—information...

The research deals with leading digital solutions, which countering illegal financial transactions. The author studies the impact of digitalization of the economy on the system of countering illegal transactions in the financial sector. The author pays special attention to the use of RegTech and...

Newspapers and websites are reporting with strong emphasys the successes of quantum computing, obtained by the new quantum machines. It is therefore natural to ask ourselves some questions about these machines, in particular how do they operate, where are they physically and what is needed for...

In January 2021, the AfCFTA entered its operational phase. This AfCFTA covers the liberalization of trade in services with a Protocol on Trade in Services. In this context, this paper examines the effects of FDI flows and ICT infrastructure on services exports, both globally and by sector in...