An Empirical Study on Externality and Total Factor Productivity of Manufacturing Industry in China - Open Journal of Social Sciences

JSS > Vol.5 No.3, March 2017

An Empirical Study on Externality and Total Factor Productivity of Manufacturing Industry in China ()

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DOI: 10.4236/jss.2017.53025 1,360 Downloads 2,262 Views Citations

Author(s)

Yiyao Zhang

Affiliation(s)

School of Economics and Commerce, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China.

ABSTRACT

This paper uses the data provided by the China Economic Census Yearbook in 2004, 2008 and 2013 to measure the TFP of the whole manufacturing and labor-intensive, capital-intensive and technology-intensive industries of 29 provinces. By constructing spatial econometric model between externality of MAR, Jacobs, Porter and TFP, and the empirical outcome shows that only MAR externality has a significant negative effect on TFP of the whole manufacturing, that is, reducing the specialization of the manufacturing industry can improve the total factor productivity. At the same time, the specific effects of the three externalities on the TFP of the manufacturing industry will be different due to the different types of industries.

KEYWORDS

Externalities, TFP, Classification of Manufacturing Industry, Spatial Econometric

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Zhang, Y. (2017) An Empirical Study on Externality and Total Factor Productivity of Manufacturing Industry in China. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 5, 269-275. doi: 10.4236/jss.2017.53025.

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