What's spurious, what's real? Measuring the productivity impacts of ICT at the firm-level

Empirical Economics

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 427-464

  Hempell, Thomas ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

Author keywords

Information and Communication Technologies; Panel Data; Production Function Estimation; Productivity; Services

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; PRODUCTIVITY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; WORLD;

EID: 19844369166     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00181-005-0248-6     Document Type: Article

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