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Measuring GDP in the digital economy: Increasing dependence on uncaptured GDP

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  • Watanabe, Chihiro
  • Naveed, Kashif
  • Tou, Yuji
  • Neittaanmäki, Pekka

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As revealed by Tapscott in his best-seller The Digital Economy published in 1994, the Internet has dramatically changed the way of conducting business and our daily lives. Further advancement of digital innovation, including cloud, mobile services, and artificial intelligence, has augmented this change significantly and provided us with extraordinary services and welfare never anticipated before. However, contrary to such an accomplishment, productivity in industrialized countries now confronts an apparent decline raising the question of a possible productivity paradox in the digital economy. The limitations of gross domestic product (GDP) statistics in measuring the advancement of the digital economy have become an important subject.

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  • Watanabe, Chihiro & Naveed, Kashif & Tou, Yuji & Neittaanmäki, Pekka, 2018. "Measuring GDP in the digital economy: Increasing dependence on uncaptured GDP," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 137(C), pages 226-240.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:tefoso:v:137:y:2018:i:c:p:226-240
    DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2018.07.053
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