Christopoulos Konstantinos, Eleftheriou Konstantinos, Nijkamp Peter
Department of Economics, University of Piraeus, 80 Karaoli & Dimitriou Street, Piraeus, 185 34 Greece.
Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Bulevardul Carol 22, Iasi, 700505 Romania.
Lett Spat Resour Sci. 2022;15(1):1-16. doi: 10.1007/s12076-021-00286-1. Epub 2021 Nov 3.
The threats of the coronavirus have shifted the workplace of many people from office to home and also made e-commerce the primary medium for purchases. While these changes were made in an effort to mitigate contagion, there are no studies, to the best of our knowledge, that address if teleworking and e-commerce culture prior to the pandemic influenced the dispersion of the virus. In our study we examine whether pre-existing teleworking practices and e-commerce activity have played an important role in the dispersion in Europe. Based on a set of data from all European countries, the present study employs the Philips & Sul methodology to explore corona convergence patterns. Our findings suggest that pre-existing e-commerce activity and teleworking practices had little to no effect in reducing the initial opportunities of individuals to contract the virus leading to the conclusion that other social interactions must have played a more important role.
新冠病毒的威胁使许多人的工作场所从办公室转移到了家中，同时也使电子商务成为购物的主要媒介。虽然这些改变是为了减轻病毒传播而做出的，但据我们所知，没有研究探讨疫情前的远程工作和电子商务文化是否影响了病毒的传播。在我们的研究中，我们考察了欧洲先前存在的远程工作实践和电子商务活动在病毒传播中是否发挥了重要作用。基于来自所有欧洲国家的一组数据，本研究采用菲利普斯和苏尔的方法来探索新冠病毒的趋同模式。我们的研究结果表明，先前存在的电子商务活动和远程工作实践在减少个人感染病毒的初始机会方面几乎没有起到作用，由此得出结论，其他社交互动必定发挥了更重要的作用。
