HOW MUCH IS THE IT FIELD ENHANCING THE ECONOMIC ACTIVITY OF THE ROMANIAN COUNTIES?
Vasile Alecsandru Strat (vasile.strat@csie.ase.ro)
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Vasile Alecsandru Strat: Academy of Economic Studies Bucharest/Department of Statistics and Econometrics
Journal of Social and Economic Statistics, 2015, vol. 4, issue 2, 42-53
Abstract:
The main goal of this research is to provide a first quantitative assessment of the IT business sector at the level of the Romanian counties. The research is conducted using yearly data, presented at county level, for the period 2008 – 2014. All time series regarding characteristics of the IT businesses were acquired from the Office of the National Trade Register, while all other data were downloaded from the Tempo database of the NIS. The methodology employed during this research includes the evaluation of the evolution of the county level disparities and the identification of some important county level characteristics, which favor the development of the IT business sector. An important finding reveals that we can talk about a king and viceroy effect in the field, namely about Bucharest, Cluj County and Iasi County which concentrate a significant part of the field’s activity. Moreover, the most important 10 counties account for over 90% of the total turnover from the field. Other significant findings indicate the following county level characteristics as good indicators of the development level of the IT field, at county level: R&D employees, GDP and population of the capital city.
Keywords: IT field; panel data; Romanian counties; regional disparities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: P48 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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