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Digitalization and international competitiveness: a cross-country exploration of the relation between firm-level ICT use, productivity and export

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  • Mark Vancauteren

    (Universiteit Hasselt)

  • Kevin Randy Chemo Dzukou

    (INRAE, Nantes)

  • Michael Polder

    (Statistics Netherlands)

  • Pierre Mohnen

    (Maastricht University)

  • Javier Miranda

    (Halle Institute for Economic Research, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena)

Abstract

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 productivity improvements. We allow for endogeneity, unobserved heterogeneity, dynamic feedback, initial conditions and correlations between the time-invariant random effects and between the idiosyncratic random effects. We find similarities but also differences in the effects of ICT on export between the three countries.

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  • Mark Vancauteren & Kevin Randy Chemo Dzukou & Michael Polder & Pierre Mohnen & Javier Miranda, 2024. "Digitalization and international competitiveness: a cross-country exploration of the relation between firm-level ICT use, productivity and export," Working Paper Research 462, National Bank of Belgium.
    • Handle: RePEc:nbb:reswpp:202410-462
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    Keywords

    ICT; productivity; export; firm data; Panel Data; international comparison;
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    JEL classification:

    • C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
    • D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
    • F14 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Empirical Studies of Trade
    • O30 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - General

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