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Technology, Exports and Firm Efficiency in Taiwanese Manufacturing

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Aw, B.Y.
Batra, G.
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Using firm-level data from the 1986 Census of Manufactures of Taiwan, the authors examine the links between technical efficiency and firm investmetns in technology and exports. Stochastic frontier techniques are used to estimate the technical efficiency of firms by investments in technology as well as by export orientation.

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Paper provided by Pennsylvania State - Department of Economics in its series Papers with number 2.

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Length: 20 pages
Date of creation: 1998
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Keywords: TECHNOLOGY ; ENTERPRISES ; EFFICIENCY ; MANUFACTURES ; TAIWAN ; EXPORTS;

Find related papers by JEL classification:
F13 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations
D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Capital and Total Factor Productivity; Capacity
O33 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Technological Change - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
L60 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Manufacturing - - - General

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  1. Chin Hee Hahn, 2004. "Exporting and Performance of Plants: Evidence from Korean Manufacturing," NBER Working Papers 10208, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  2. Bee Yan Aw & Sukkyun Chung & Mark J. Roberts, 1998. "Productivity and the Decision to Export: Micro Evidence from Taiwan and South Korea," NBER Working Papers 6558, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  3. Cassiman, Bruno & Golovko, Elena, 2007. "Innovation and the Export-productivity Link," CEPR Discussion Papers 6411, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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