The impact of doing business regulations on investments in ICT

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• 作者：Vahagn Jerbashian ; Anna Kochanova
• 关键词：Investments in ICT ; Regulations of doing business ; Empirical evidence
• 刊名：Empirical Economics
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：May 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：50
• 期：3
• 页码：991-1008
• 全文大小：438 KB
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• 作者单位：Vahagn Jerbashian (1) (2)
  Anna Kochanova (3)
  
  1. Departament de Teoria Econòmica and CREB, Universitat de Barcelona, Av. Diagonal 696, 08034, Barcelona, Spain
  2. CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
  3. Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn, Germany
  
• 刊物主题：Econometrics; Statistics for Business/Economics/Mathematical Finance/Insurance; Economic Theory;
• 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• ISSN：1435-8921

文摘

Using industry-level data from 14 OECD countries and doing business indicators of the World Bank, we analyze how country-level regulations of business activities affect investments in information and communication technologies (ICT). We find that investments in ICT decrease with the costs of starting and operating a business and registering property. Investments increase with the strength of legal rights. We also find that investments in software increase with the ability of shareholders to sue managers for misconduct, and investments in communication technologies decline with the extent of director liability for self-dealing.