Sources of output growth in Singapore's services sector

被引：12

作者：

Mahadevan R. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Department of Economics, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia

来源：

Empirical Economics | 2000年 / 25卷 / 3期

关键词：

Technical efficiency; Technological progress; Total factor productivity growth;

D O I：

10.1007/s001810000029

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摘要：

As services are an important engine of growth for Singapore, this paper attempts to empirically investigate the sources of output growth in this sector to shed light on the debate sparked off by Krugman (1994) on the miraculous or mythical growth of Singapore and the other newly industralizing Southeast Asian economies. This is done by using the stochastic production frontier model with panel data. Unlike existing studies which used the conventional growth accounting approach to decompose output growth into just input growth and total factor productivity (TFP) growth, this approach further decomposes TFP growth into technological progress and changes in technical efficiency.

引用

页码：495 / 506

页数：11

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