We identify key drivers of digital adoption, estimate fiscal costs to provide internet subsidies to households, and calculate social dividends from digital adoption. Using cross-country panel regressions and machine learning, we find that digital infrastructure coverage, internet price, and...

I study how the diffusion of market news, firm-specific news, and noise among firms affects stock returns in a global network. I use a structural vector auto-regression to estimate market news, firm-specific news, and noise. To determine global network linkages, I exploit analyst co-coverage....

Much licensing of patented technology is royalty-bearing, allowing innovators to be compensated for their investments in researching, developing, and then in commercializing the resulting products.However, over the last couple of decades, standards-based technologies have expanded, in part, due...

This study explores the role of the preventive quality of innovations on their adoption intention. Empirically grounded in third-party ownership of photovoltaic systems in Finland, this study examines data collected from an online survey measuring respondent intention to adopt. A series of...

We consider technology choices between green and brown technologies by firms. We use insights from complexity theory and also take account of true uncertainty in designing public policy. The green technology offers relatively higher returns to scale from adoption, and there are type-contingent...

This paper examines the common perception that internet adoption accelerated globally during the COVID- 19 pandemic. The data show little evidence of a faster expansion of access to internet (extensive margin) across all country income groups but strong evidence of acceleration in the...

Decentralised technologies have gained popularity recently due to their reliable, transparent, open, immutable and secured natures. The technologies have demonstrated numerous benefits in a wide range of domains, including finance, healthcare, government, manufacturing and supply chain. However,...

Accelerating the adoption of technologies that decrease energy use during production is a critical avenue to achieving decarbonization goals. These “clean energy technologies” are defined as the installation of any hardware, software, or product that reduces energy consumption and/or...

Purpose – The objective of this paper is to develop a framework which assists in discovering the drivers of transition from a search engine to a chat engine by the consumer for initial information search. Design/methodology/approach – The methodology has three parts. First, we provide a...

Purpose: Governments in developing countries are riddled with operational inefficiencies. Many have turned to electronic service delivery to address these operational problems. With coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the push for digitalisation has only got stronger. We use the...