Europe needs more lisbon to make the ICT investments effective

Intereconomics

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 124-134

  Barrios, Salvador ^a   Burgelman, Jean Claude ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

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EID: 45149084423     PISSN: 00205346     EISSN: 1613964X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10272-008-0245-z     Document Type: Article

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1. See in particular B. van Ark, R. Inklaar: Catching-up or Getting Stuck? Europe's Troubles to Exploit ICT's Productivity Potential, Research Memorandum GD-79, Groningen Growth and Development Centre 2005
2. and G. Carone, C. Denis, K. McMorrow, G. Mourre, W. Röger: Long-term labour productivity and GDP projections for the EU25 Member States: A production function framework, European Economy Economic Papers No. 253, Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs, Brussels 2006.
3. Cf. European Commission: I2010 - A European Information Society for growth and employment, Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of Regions, COM(2007) 146 final, SE(2005) 717.
4. Cf. European Commission: I2010, Annual Information Society Report 2007, Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of Regions, COM(2007) 146 final.
5. Cf. P. Aghion, N. Bloom, R. Blundell, R. Griffith, P. Howitt: Competition and Innovation: An inverted-U relationship, in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 120, No. 2, 2005.
6. C. Gust, J. Marquez: International comparisons of productivity growth: the role of information technologies and regulatory practices, in: Labour Economics, Vol. 11, 2004, pp. 33-58
7. P. Conway, D. de la Rosa, G. Nicoletti, F. Steiner: Regulation, Competition and Productivity Convergence, OECD Economics Department Working Papers No. 509, Paris 2006.
8. A more extended report of the results presented here, including econometric evidence, can be found in S. Barrios, J. C. Burgelman: Information and Communication Technologies, Market rigidities and Growth: Implications for EU policies, IPTS Technical Report 23027, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, Joint Research Centre, European Commission, 2007, available at http://www.jrc.es/publications/ pub.cfm?id=1508.
9. Cf. EU KLEMS: EU KLEMS Growth and Productivity Accounts, Part 1 Methodology, 2007, available at: http://www.euklems.net/.
10. This database is available at the EU KLEMS website, March 2007 release, http://www.euklems.net.
11. More details on the definition of ICT investment can be found in EU KLEMS, op. cit.
12. See in particular M. Mas, J. Quesada: ICT and Economic Growth in Spain 1985-2002, EU KLEMS Working Paper No. 1, Groningen Growth & Development Centre, Netherlands, 2005.
13. For a taxonomy of ICT-intensive industries, cf. also ibid.
14. Cf. EU KLEMS: EU KLEMS Growth and Productivity..., op. cit., for details.
15. This database is available at: http://www.fraserinstitute.org/.
16. For a recent review cf. J. Babetskii, N. F. Campos: Does Reform Work? An Econometric examination of the Reform-growth Puzzle, CEPR Discussion Paper No. 6215, London 2007.
17. Note that a value equal to zero for the catch-up rate in regulation means either that no significant changes have taken place or that the countries have obtained a slightly better mark than the USA in 2000.