Dell'Anno, R, Rayna, T. and Solomon, H. 2016. Impact of Social Media on Economic Growth - Evidence from Social Media. Applied Economics Letters. 23 (9), pp. 633-636. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2015.1095992
| Title | Impact of Social Media on Economic Growth - Evidence from Social Media |
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| Type | Journal article |
| Authors | Dell'Anno, R, Rayna, T. and Solomon, H. |
| Abstract | This paper attempts to investigate the impact of social media on economic growth. Using information obtained from memberships to social networks, we find that social media has a negative and significant impact on economic growth. This provides evidence in favour of our hypothesis that social media increases the search costs for information and also increases the substitution effect from labour to leisure thereby producing a negative impact on growth. |
| Keywords | Social media, social networking, economic growth |
| Journal | Applied Economics Letters |
| Journal citation | 23 (9), pp. 633-636 |
| ISSN | 1350-4851 |
| Year | 2016 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
| Accepted author manuscript | |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2015.1095992 |
| Web address (URL) | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13504851.2015.1095992 |
| Publication dates | |
| Published online | 16 Nov 2015 |
| Published in print | 2016 |