Research Discussion Paper – RDP 2002-02 Australian Use of Information Technology and its Contribution to Growth

Contents

• Introduction
• Previous Research
• The Theory
• The Data
• Results
• Two Interesting Questions
• Discussion
• Conclusion
• Appendix A: Industry-level Contributions to Growth
• Appendix B: Total Requirement Coefficients
• References

We would like to thank Harry Bloch, Don Brunker, Jacqui Dwyer, David Gruen, Carl Obst and Dean Parham for helpful comments. Preliminary results from part of this research were reported in Gruen (2001). The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and should not be attributed to the Reserve Bank of Australia.