This report investigates the relationship between firms’ use of cloud services and their exports, for the first time using a dataset of Swedish firms. Our findings demonstrate that Swedish companies using cloud computing tend to be more internationalised, for example, by exporting more and to more markets.
Authors
Hannes Berggren och Patrik Karpaty; National Board of Trade Sweden
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- Pages
- 25
- Published in
- Sweden
Table of Contents
- Cloud Services and Export Performance 1
- Preface 2
- Executive summary 3
- Table of contents 4
- 1 Introduction 5
- 2 Background 7
- 2.1 Cloud services 7
- 2.2 The EU cloud market 7
- 2.3 Cloud services and global trade rules 9
- 3 Cloud services and export performance 10
- 3.1Literature.review:.Productivity.and.trade.effects.of.cloud services 10
- 3.2 Descriptive analysis 10
- 3.3 Statistical analysis 13
- 3.4 Results 15
- 4 Conclusions and policy recommendations 16
- References 17
- Appendices 20
- Appendix I: Structure, data and method 20
- Appendix II: Additional Results 21
- Sammanfattning på svenska /Summary in Swedish 24
