Structural Sources of a Productivity Decline in the Digital Economy
International Journal of Managing Information Technology (IJMIT) ISSN: 0975-5586 (Online); 0975-5926 (Print) http://airccse.org/journal/ijmit/ijmit.html Article: Structural Sources of a Productivity Decline in the Digital Economy Authors Chihiro Watanabe1,2, Kuniko Moriya3, Yuji Tou4 and Pekka Neittaanmaki5, 1,5University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, 2 International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria, 3Bank of Japan, Japan and4Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Abstract While the Internet-driven digitized innovation has provided us with extraordinary services and welfare, productivity in industrialized countries has been confronted with an apparent decline, and it has raised the question of a productivity paradox. The limitations of the GDP statistics in measuring the digital economy have become an important subject. Based on national accounting framework and utilizing the development trajectories of 500 global information and communication...