There are essentially no large-scale datasets with detailed information on firm-level technology usage (as opposed to patent ownership) with broad coverage of technologies and firms over an extended period of time. Yet, technology usage is central to many fields of economics and finance. In this...

The present study assesses how governance affects information and communication technology at the global level contingent on macroeconomic policy factors such as trade, foreign investment, manufacturing value added and agriculture value added. The focus of the study is on 183 countries for the...

This paper explores the role of ICT diffusion in the underlying causes of stock price synchronicity. By analyzing data from 2002 through 2019 for forty-seven countries, we find that stock price synchronicity is higher in countries with lower ICT diffusion. Furthermore, we discover that ICT...

Despite massive digitization efforts, the German economy has experienced a marked slowdown in its productivity growth. This paper empirically analyzes three prominent explanations for this development. First, using a novel quarterly utilization-adjusted total factor productivity measure for the...

The advent of new and emerging technologies has brought about a rapid pace of change across various aspects of life, including education. With the increasing use of information technology in classrooms, traditional methods of teaching and learning are being challenged. This paper provides a...

Why do different types of information and communications technologies (ICTs) differentially relate to civil conflict incidence? We distinguish one-way (radio; television) from two-way ICTs (phone; internet; social media), contrasting technologies enabling one-directional broadcasting against...

This paper assesses the impact of mandatory environmental information disclosure on the firm’s digital transformation and the conditions for its realization. We take China’s Measures on Environmental Information Disclosure for Enterprises and Institutions (EIDEI) implemented in 2015 as an...

We analyse the effects of the ban of ChatGPT, a generative pre-trained transformer chatbot, on individual productivity. We first compile data on the hourly coding output of over 8,000 professional GitHub users in Italy and other European countries to analyse the impact of the ban on individual...

Supply chain resilience has been acknowledged by many authors, scholars, and supply chain practitioners. A disrupted supply chain due to any pandemic situation, natural disaster, political instability, and other unfavorable conditions can cause low organizational performance and can only be...

The ICT-income inequality relationship and the governance quality-income inequality nexus have been investigated in recent years. However, the moderating effect of ICT on the governance quality-income inequality linkage has been largely ignored. To fill this gap in the literature, this study...