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https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2022.2142814
Investigating the digital convergence in European Union: an econometric analysis of pitfalls and pivots of digital economic transformation
Jean Vasile Andrei
Luminița Chivu
Violeta Sima
Ileana Georgiana Gheorghe
Dumitru Nancu
Mircea Duică
Sažetak
This study aims to investigate the convergence of digitalisation in
the European Union (EU) in terms of DESI per capita in all EU countries
during 2015–2020. The empirical results sustain the hypothesis
of convergence of the degree of digital level in the European Union
member countries. In evaluating the convergence process, we also
aimed to investigate the role of economic development and education,
measured by gross value added and education index. The analysis
results, the use of sigma and beta convergence methods,
showed that the role of economic development is likely to be
decisive in resolving disparities, as opposed to that of educational
development. The sigma convergence analysis showed that the gap
between the EU-28 countries regarding digitalisation tends to
decrease in the analysed period. Spatial data analysis, in turn, provides
strong evidence for the presence of spatial autocorrelation in
the DESI distribution. This result is based on a spatial lagged model
that considers that DESI growth rates are related both to their initial
levels of digitalisation and the growth rates of neighbouring regions.
Ključne riječi
Digitalisation; Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI); Gross Value Added (GVA); educational index; sigma convergence; beta convergence; spatial autocorrelation
Hrčak ID:
306786
URI
Datum izdavanja:
30.4.2023.
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