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Introducing consumer durable digital services into the BEA digital economy satellite account

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  • Bridgman, Benjamin
  • Highfill, Tina
  • Samuels, Jon

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Measuring the digital economy is a high priority for analysts of economic growth. We augment the Bureau of Economic Analysis’s Digital Economy Satellite Account to include digital services provided by high-tech consumer durables. We find that including the service flow from these goods raises the growth rate of the digital economy between 2005 and 2021 from 6.4 percent per year to 7.1 percent per year. Consumer durable services accounted for about 13 percent of nominal digital economy GDP. While most household services are not digital, the household owns a significant part of the digital infrastructure.

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  • Bridgman, Benjamin & Highfill, Tina & Samuels, Jon, 2024. "Introducing consumer durable digital services into the BEA digital economy satellite account," Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 48(1).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:telpol:v:48:y:2024:i:1:s0308596123001295
    DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2023.102618
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    Keywords

    Digital economy; Household production; Information and communications technology;
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    JEL classification:

    • D13 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Production and Intrahouse Allocation
    • E01 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General - - - Measurement and Data on National Income and Product Accounts and Wealth; Environmental Accounts

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