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The Effects of Digitalization on Production

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  • Florentine Schwark
  • Andreas Tryphonides

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How does digitalization transform the macroeconomic production function? Within an endogenous technology choice framework, we find that sectors with more digital capital exhibit a higher elasticity of substitution between value-added and intermediate inputs and within value-added, between capital and labor. The shift in the elasticity of substitution is consistent with a higher complementarity of input-specific productivities. We also find that digitalization contributes to Hicks-neutral technical change in value added. Not all types of digital capital have a significant impact on the production function.

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  • Florentine Schwark & Andreas Tryphonides, 2024. "The Effects of Digitalization on Production," University of Cyprus Working Papers in Economics 02-2024, University of Cyprus Department of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:ucy:cypeua:02-2024
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    Keywords

    Digitalization; Elasticity of substitution; Productivity; Endogenous technology choice; Technology frontier;
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    JEL classification:

    • E23 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Production
    • E25 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Aggregate Factor Income Distribution
    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes

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