Global Smartphones Sales May Have Peaked /

Global smartphone sales may have peaked. After reaching nearly 1.5 billion units in 2016, global smartphone sales have since declined, contributing negatively to world trade in 2019 and suggesting that the global market may now be saturated. This paper develops a simple model to forecast smartphone...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mongardini, Joannes
Other Authors: Radzikowski, Aneta
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2020.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2020/070
Online Access:Full text available on IMF