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Matti Pohjola
Researcher at World Institute for Development Economics Research
Publications - 62
Citations - 3022
Matti Pohjola is an academic researcher from World Institute for Development Economics Research. The author has contributed to research in topics: Productivity & Investment (macroeconomics). The author has an hindex of 26, co-authored 62 publications receiving 2936 citations. Previous affiliations of Matti Pohjola include Aalto University & University of Tampere.
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Cross-country Diffusion of the Internet
Sampsa Kiiski,Matti Pohjola +1 more
TL;DR: The Gompertz model of technology diffusion is estimated using data on Internet hosts per capita for the year 1995-2000 to investigate the factors which determine the diffusion of the Internet across countries.
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The New Economy: facts, impacts and policies☆
TL;DR: This special issue attempt to assess the significance of the New Economy, to estimate its impacts on economic growth, location of production and on income and wealth inequality, and to evaluate its prospects for economic development.
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Economic growth in the New Economy: evidence from advanced economies
Jukka Jalava,Matti Pohjola +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, it is shown that the contribution to output growth from ICT use has increased from 0.3 percentage points in early 1990s to 0.7 points in the late 1990s, and the fast growth of multi-factor productivity in the ICT-producing industries has had an even larger impact.
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New economy in growth and development
TL;DR: The authors found no significant correlation between ICT investment and economic growth in the period 1985-99 for a sample of 42 countries for which ICT spending data are available, and the relationship is not statistically significant for the subsamples of industrial or high-income countries either.
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Information Technology and Economic Growth. A Cross-Country Analysis
TL;DR: The authors explored the impacts of informatin technology investment on economic growth in a cross-section of 39 countries in the period 1980-95 by applying an explicit model of economic growth, the augmented version of the neoclassical (Solow) growth model.