Information and communication technologies effects on macroeconomic factors

Digitalization, one of the important developments of the 21st century, leads the world to a radical change process. The rapid transformations in technology and the increase in the use of information and communication technologies have led to the emergence of the concept of digital transformation. Digital transformation is a factor that facilitates peoples's living standards, provides a competitive advantage in global markets, and drives the macro-economy of countries to a radical transformation. In this study, it has been tried to analyze the effects of information and communication technologies, which form the basis of digital transformation, on macroeconomic factors by using the data of 36 OECD member countries from 1996 to 2020. In the first two stages of the thesis, conceptual explanations about digital transformation, information and communication technologies and macro-economic farctors are made, while in the other sections, literature review and digital transformation in OECD countries are included. In the last stage of the thesis, the effects of information and communication technologies on the economy in OECD countries are analyzed by using the world bank data in general. As a result, in this thesis, the effects of information and communication technologies, which form the basis of digital transformation, on the economy are tested with the unbalanced panel data analysis method.