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

Mark Vancauteren (), Kevin Randy Chemo Dzukou, Michael Polder, Pierre Mohnen and Javier Miranda
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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

No 462, Working Paper Research from National Bank of Belgium

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.

Keywords: ICT; productivity; export; firm data; Panel Data; international comparison (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 D24 F14 O30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 57 pages
Date: 2024-10
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