The digital economy, most backed by proliferation of information and technology (ICTs), provides impressive opportunities for firms, regions and countries productivity growth. This paper investigates the effect of the digital economy proxied by e-government, e-commerce, and household internet users at home on total factor productivity-measured using Törnqvist index across 182 EU27 NUTS2 regions over the period 2006 to 2020. For robustness of the results, we also use Malmquist index method. By deploying system GMM estimation, we find that digital economy has positive and significant impact on total factor productivity across the European regions. Therefore, public policies should support investment in digital infrastructure, and improve the digital literacy across laggard regions of Europe. Such policies would remove digital inequalities across European regions and increase total factor productivity towards EU social and economic cohesion.

数字经济以信息和技术（ICT）的普及为后盾，为企业、地区和国家的生产力增长提供了令人印象深刻的机会。本文研究了 2006 年至 2020 年期间，以电子政务、电子商务和家庭互联网用户为代表的数字经济对全要素生产率的影响（使用 Törnqvist 指数衡量 182 个 EU27 NUTS2 地区的全要素生产率）。结果，我们同样采用Malmquist指数法。通过部署系统GMM估计，我们发现数字经济对整个欧洲地区的全要素生产率产生了积极且显着的影响。因此，公共政策应支持数字基础设施投资，并提高欧洲落后地区的数字素养。此类政策将消除整个欧洲地区的数字不平等，并提高全要素生产率，从而实现欧盟的社会和经济凝聚力。