Jonathan Timmis

World Bank

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Richard Kneller

University of Nottingham

Timothy Destefano

Georgetown University

Chiara Criscuolo

IBM (France)

Matěj Bajgar

Charles University

Sara Calligaris

Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Economiques

Nick Johnstone

Agence internationale de l'énergie

Giuseppe Berlingieri

École Supérieure des Sciences Économiques et Commerciales

Somik V. Lall

World Bank Group

Aaditya Mattoo

World Bank

Francesca de Nicola

World Bank

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Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Economiques

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World Bank

Centre for Economic Policy Research

Harvard University Press

London School of Economics and Political Science

National Institute of Science and Technology Policy

National Bureau of Economic Research

Délégation Paris 6

Brescia University

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Replication Data for: Cloud computing and firm growth

Harvard Dataverse (2023)

Timothy Destefano Richard Kneller Jonathan Timmis

Review of Economics and Statistics: Forthcoming

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10.7910/dvn/jqj6fz

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Productivity in the Time of COVID-19

World Bank Publications - Reports (2021)

Francesca de Nicola Aaditya Mattoo Jonathan Timmis Trang Thu Tran

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak

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Robots and export quality

Journal of Development Economics (2023)

Timothy Destefano Jonathan Timmis

10.1016/j.jdeveco.2023.103248

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The (Fuzzy) Digital Divide: The Effect of Broadband Internet Use on UK Firm Performance

RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (2014)

Timothy De Stefano Richard Kneller Jonathan Timmis

This paper applies a fuzzy regression discontinuity design to study the effects of ADSL broadband internet on the performance of firms. We exploit a geographical discontinuity in the availability of ADSL broadband, firms located one side of the divide had access to broadband services that those on the other side did not. The discontinuity stems from an historical accident, whereby the telecommunications in one area of the North East of England is delivered by a separate company to the national monopoly provider. We study the discontinuity at the boundary between these two telecommunications providers, which rolled out broadband infrastructure at different times. Our analysis strongly suggests that broadband use has no statistically significant effect on the performance of firms.

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Bits and bolts

OECD science, technology and industry working papers (2019)

Matěj Bajgar Sara Calligaris Flavio Calvino Chiara Criscuolo Jonathan Timmis

The digital transformation forces a re-think of government policy as manufacturing business models increasingly transition from "bolts" to "bits". The road to Industry 4.0 implies important and pervasive changes in business dynamics, firm growth and the nature of competition. This report presents a framework for measuring the digital transformation of manufacturing industries, and maps the impact of digital technologies across these several dimensions: firm productivity growth, business dynamism, industry concentration, firm mark-ups and mergers and acquisition activity. It suggests policies that governments can use to facilitate digital adoption and reap the benefits of the digital revolution in manufacturing.

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10.1787/c917d518-en

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The (fuzzy) digital divide: the effect of universal broadband on firm performance

Journal of Economic Geography (2022)

Timothy Destefano Richard Kneller Jonathan Timmis

Abstract Differences in access to high-speed broadband between urban and rural locations are known as the ‘digital divide’. Governments around the world have committed to spending considerable amounts of money to alleviate disparities in broadband infrastructure. However, to date, there is limited causal evidence for broadband and firm performance with even less of an understanding on whether the effects are distinct between firms located in urban versus rural localities. In this article, we exploit geographical discontinuities in broadband availability across the UK to capture the causal effects on firms on both sides of this divide. We find for both urban and rural firms that broadband causes an increase in their size, but not labor productivity. In addition, we find evidence that these size effects are strongest for urban firms, but for both urban and rural firms, the effects are concentrated in knowledge-intensive industries.

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10.1093/jeg/lbac006

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Cloud Computing and Firm Growth

SSRN Electronic Journal (2020)

Timothy Destefano Richard Kneller Jonathan Timmis

Cloud computing enables a shift in the costs of ICT adoption from investment in fixed capital to pay-on-demand services allowing firms to scale and reorganize. Using new firm-level data we examine the impact of cloud on firm growth, using zip-code-level instruments of the timing of high-speed fiber availability and speeds. Cloud leads to the growth of employment and revenue for young firms, but they become concentrated in fewer establishments. For incumbents, we find smaller scale effects but dispersed activity through closing establishments and moving employment farther from the headquarters. Moreover, cloud adoption leads to worker relocation across establishments within firms.

10.2139/ssrn.3618829

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Agglomeration economies in developing countries: A meta-analysis

Regional Science and Urban Economics (2023)

Arti Grover Somik V. Lall Jonathan Timmis

Elasticity

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10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2023.103901

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Capital incentives in the age of intangibles

RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (2020)

Timothy Destefano Nick Johnstone Richard Kneller Jonathan Timmis

Cloud computing presents a significant change in the way firms access digital technology and enables data-driven business models. Now, firms can acquire their storage, processing and software needs as a cloud computing service rather than making upfront fixed cost investments in capital. Yet, policies that encourage digital diffusion are still targeted towards investment in physical IT capital. This paper exploits a UK tax incentive for capital investment to examine firm adoption of cloud computing and big data analytics. Using a quasi-natural experimental approach our empirical results show that the policy increased investment in IT capital and hardware as one would expect; but it reduced the adoption of cloud and big data analytics. The adverse effects of the policy on cloud and big data adoption are particularly pronounced for small firms.

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The Changing Structure of Global Value Chains: Are Central Hubs Key for Productivity?

International productivity monitor (2018)

Chiara Criscuolo Jonathan Timmis

This article uses centrality metrics reflecting position within Global Value Chains (GVCs) to identify central hubs and peripheral European economies and sectors. We find evidence of large changes in the structure of European production networks, with rising importance of Eastern European economies coinciding with the timing of their EU accession. Using cross-country firm-level data from ORBIS, we find that changing structure of GVCs can play a role in the catch-up of firms, but the effects are heterogeneous across firms and countries. First, becoming more central is associated with faster productivity growth of firms in post-2004 EU members. Second, the average productivity (centrality weighted) of buyers/suppliers matters for the productivity of firms overall in other European economies, and particularly non-frontier (initially less productive) firms in both groups of countries. The results for post-2004 EU members suggest that policies to encourage integration into GVCs are particularly important for the productivity of emerging or less integrated economies, whereas for more advanced economies a more sophisticated policy is needed that encourages the formation of linkages with productive, frontier foreign firms and economies.

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