The Importance Of Being It The paper considers a growth accounting exercise for Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Finland, Ireland, UK and USA in the period 1980-2004 integrating the results with the those obtained by an econometric model aimed, above all, at singling out an estimation of IT production to the total factor productivity. The results of the pure growth accounting model are principally:&bull The total factor...... Similar Editorial : by Rexanne Mancini. | Source : Advanced Bridging Technologies