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Information and Communication Technologies, Market Rigidities and Growth: Implications for EU Policies

Barrios, Salvador; Burgelman, Jean-Claude - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

that indicates that market rigidities deter ICT investment and lower the impact of ICT on GDP growth by considering a … markets. These results are invariant, even when other potential determinants of ICT investments and ICT contribution to GDP … impact on GDP growth. While the renewed EU Lisbon strategy of economic reforms is badly needed to increase EU growth …

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Recent Productivity Developments in Canada and the United States: Productivity Growth Deceleration versus Acceleration

Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 8 (2004) Spring, pp. 16-26

Since 2000, productivity growth in Canada and the United States have followed markedly different paths. In the second article, Andrew Sharpe of the Centre for the Study of Living Standards finds that the remarkable productivity growth experienced in the United States in the past two years is...

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Regional inequalities in the impact of broadband on productivity: Evidence from Brazil

Jung, Juan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The aim of this paper is to perform an analysis of the impact of broadband on regional productivity in Brazil. The possibility of performing a regional approach, instead of the usual country-level analysis, constitutes an opportunity to decode the economic impact of broadband at territories...

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The role of new technologies in the economic growth of Andalucia

López, Diego Martínez; López, Jesús Rodríguez - Centro de Estudios Andaluces, Government of Andalusia - 2006

This paper explores the contribution of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) on economic growth and labor productivity growth of Andalucía during 1995-2004. We find that the contribution of ICT assets to total market GVA growth is quantitatively modest. Anyway the contribution to...

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The Role of ICT on the Spanish Productivity Slowdown

Mas, Matilde; Quesada, Javier - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

The paper presents a quantification of Spanish productivity performance over the last two decades –with a special mention to the role played by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). It makes use of the capital service data -recently released by the BBVA Foundation- exploiting its...

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ICT, Output and Productivity Growth in the United Kingdom: A Sectoral Analysis

Notaro, Giovanni - In: International Productivity Monitor 8 (2004) Spring, pp. 37-46

Much has been written, including in previous issues of the Monitor, on the importance of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in productivity growth, but this research has focused primarily on North America. In the fourth article, Giovanni Notaro of London Economics investigates...

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Ten Productivity Puzzles Facing Researchers

Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 9 (2004) Fall, pp. 15-24

Puzzles intrigue and motivate researchers and focus research effort, and the productivity area is fortunate in having many unresolved issues. In the second article, Andrew Sharpe of the Centre for the Study of Living Standards puts forward and briefly discusses what he sees as the ten most...

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Canada's Productivity Performance in International Perspective

Pilat, Dirk - In: International Productivity Monitor 10 (2005) Spring, pp. 24-44

Considering the entire 1995-2003 period and compared to all OECD countries, this paper presents the view that Canada has actually performed quite well in terms of labour productivity growth. The author points to two factors that have fostered productivity growth in Canada: a high level of human...

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The Effect of Adjustment Costs and Organizational Change on Productivity in Canada: Evidence from Aggregate Data

Leung, Danny - In: International Productivity Monitor 9 (2004) Fall, pp. 52-61

Danny Leung of the Bank of Canada provides support for the hypothesis that organizational change is a necessary condition for the full realization of the productivity gains associated with ICT. Using aggegate data, the author finds econometric evidence that the impact of computer investment is...

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New technologies and economic growth: a regional approach. The case of Andalucia

López, Jesús Rodríguez; López, Diego Martínez - Departamento de Economía, Universidad Pablo de Olavide - 2006

This paper studies the contribution of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to economic growth and labor productivity growth in Andalucía (Spain) over 1995-2004. We find that the contribution of ICT assets to total market GVA growth is quantitatively modest. However the contribution...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005634779