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Drivers of firms' digital activities in response to the Covid-19 pandemic

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  • Franco, Chiara
  • Pietrovito, Filomena

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The aim of the paper is to analyse the main internal drivers of the increase and adoption of online activities carried out by firms in reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic. While the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on several different measures of firm level performance has been debated in many papers, not enough effort has been devoted to investigating its digitalization impact, especially with respect to the drivers for firms operating in transition countries. To this end, we explore a very detailed firm-level dataset, drawn from the World Bank Enterprise Survey (WBES) combined with the Covid-19-ES Follow-up Survey, for 22 East European and Central-Eastern Asian countries. Our findings reveal that (i) higher online activity is associated with higher digital and technological endowment of the firm and (ii) this relationship is shaped by external factors, such as country-level digital infrastructure.

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  • Franco, Chiara & Pietrovito, Filomena, 2024. "Drivers of firms' digital activities in response to the Covid-19 pandemic," Economics & Statistics Discussion Papers esdp24096, University of Molise, Department of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:mol:ecsdps:esdp24096
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    Keywords

    digitalization; technological endowment; transition countries; Covid-19.;
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    JEL classification:

    • D22 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
    • L20 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - General
    • O30 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - General

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