Information technology investments and aggregate productivity

Paul Moon Sub Choi, Hakyoul Choe

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Abstract

Earlier studies have shown positive and large impacts of information technology (IT) investments on aggregate products in the nascent stage. However, this causal inference may not be applicable in the adult regime with a diminishing marginal productivity. We conduct a 52 cross-country analysis on a 15 year data of IT capital stocks, rather than flows as used in the literature. Controlling for country and time effects, the empirical implications of our study are as follows: First, the IT investment intensity positively affects aggregate productivity controlling for labor, assets, and financial markets. Second, the relative contribution has decreased as the law of diminishing returns predicts. Lastly, software and services have gained more capital allocation on relative terms in exchange for less on hardware. This finding contrasts with the existing argument that the hardware-software mix is time-constant due to substitution.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)995-1008
Number of pages14
JournalJournal of Applied Business Research
Volume32
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jul 2016

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Special thanks are due to Seong Kook Kim, Songchun Moon, and Hee-Dong Yang. Standard disclaimer rules apply and all errors are of our own. This work was supported by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2015S1A5A2A01010876).

Publisher Copyright:
© by author(s); CC-BY.

Keywords

  • Aggregate Productivity
  • Information Technology Investments
  • Management Information System

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