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Digital social innovation (DSI) is commonly associated with cities. However, DSI is not limited to urban space. In rural areas, it is the inhabitants themselves who start and push digitalization projects, and collaborate with professional actors from the outside. These innovators see...
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This paper analyses the adoption of energy-efficiency enhancing technologies by heterogeneous firms. The fact that energy use does not only cause external environmental costs through pollution, but also directly affects the profitability of the firm and hence its behaviour on input and output...
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We apply different matched-pair methods to evaluate the policy of sustaining the adoption of advanced manufacturing technologies by Swiss firms and we compare it in decomposing the selection bias. In this aim we present the evaluation problem, the decomposition of the selection bias and the...
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This study aims to investigate the short-run and long-run relationship between economic variables and the unemployment rate in South Asian countries. A panel vector error correction model is used to establish the long-run and the short-run relationship between the unemployment rate and the...
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We study the relationship between ICT, total factor productivity and export at the firm level in Belgium, France and … the Netherlands. In particular, we look at whether ICT has both a direct effect on export and an indirect effect via … differences in the effects of ICT on export between the three countries. …
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Digitization-related services and applications are based on the information and communications technology (ICT … actual climate relevance of the ICT ecosystem by providing sound empirical evidence on the net effect of various ICT core … connections. In contrast, other elements of the ICT ecosystem, such as mobile broadband networks or electronic end-user devices …
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We develop a unifying framework to investigate the effects of firms’ internet presence on productivity and market structure. Using information on website adoption as an indicator of online trading, we treat the decision of entering an e-commerce market equivalent to the decision of entering a...
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Digitization related services and applications are based on the information and comm unications technology (ICT … the actual climate relevance of the ICT ecosystem by providing sound empirical evidence on the net effect of various ICT … variables. When compared with previous empirical contributions, we utilize more comprehensive measures of the ICT ecosystem and …
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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 …
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This paper investigates the effect of ICT and e-formalization on tax mobilization efforts in sub-Saharan Africa. Using … that there is strong support that ICT (mobile subscription and internet usage) and e-formalization (e-government) enhanced … efforts) through the increase in the usage of ICT that can be applied to simplify tax administration, reduce compliance costs …
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