What drives total factor productivity growth? An examination of spillover effects

Siller, Matthias; Schatzer, Thomas; Walde, Janette; Tappeiner, Gottfried

doi:10.1080/00343404.2020.1869199

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“…This selection resolves the problem of non-stationarity, heteroscedasticity, and autocorrelation in the estimated model [62,63]. To resolve the endogeneity problem, a one-year lag of highly correlated variables was used as an instrumental variable in the two stage least square (TSLS) approach [64]. Further, the interactive term is helpful in resolving the endogeneity problem.…”

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R&D Innovation Adoption, Climatic Sensitivity, and Absorptive Ability Contribution for Agriculture TFP Growth in Pakistan

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Innovation adoptions in agriculture sustain high total factor productivity (TFP) growth and overcome a potential production gap, which is beneficial for food security. Research and development (R&D) innovation adoption in agriculture sector is dependent on producers’ willingness to adopt, knowledge capital spillovers, and financial capacity. This research aims to investigate the impact of R&D innovation adoption and climate factors on agriculture TFP growth in Pakistan. The annual time series data were collected from different sources for the period of 1972–2020. For measuring the agriculture TFP, this study adopted the Cobb Douglas and Translog production functions. To analyze the impact of R&D innovation adoption and climate change on agricultural productivity, the dynamic autoregressive distributive lag (ARDL) and two-stage least square (TSLS) approaches were applied for regression analysis. The study outcomes highlight that the agricultural innovation adoption has a significantly positive impact on agriculture TFP growth in Pakistan with weak farmers’ absorptive ability. According to the results, agriculture tractors, innovative seed distribution, and fertilizer consumptions make a significantly positive contribution to agriculture TFP growth. Further, rainfall shows a positive and significant impact on agricultural productivity, where a moderate climate is beneficial for agricultural productivity. The estimation results contain policy suggestions for sustainable R&D adoption and agrarians’ absorptive ability. Based on the obtained results, it has been suggested that producers should focus on R&D innovation adoption to attain higher productivity. The government needs to emphasize innovative technology adoption, specifically to implement the extension services to increase farmers’ education, skills based training, and networking among the farmers to enhance their knowledge capital and absorptive ability. The farmers should also focus on the adoption of climate smart agriculture that can be achieved through the proper utilization of rainwater. For this purpose, the government needs to develop small community dams and large-scale dams for better use of rainwater harvesting.

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Section: Endogeneity and Diagnostic Test Resultsmentioning

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R&D Innovation Adoption, Climatic Sensitivity, and Absorptive Ability Contribution for Agriculture TFP Growth in Pakistan

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“…Its use is often hindered by missing data for the computation of capital stocks at the regional level. Nonetheless, there have been some recent studies on EU regions, such as Männasoo et al (2018) and Siller et al (2021), who use TFP regional measures following the pioneering research by Marrocu et al (2013). We build upon this contribution by using the JRC EU Commission's Knowledge4Policy (K4P) platform.…”

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“…Recently various papers have investigated these TFP differentials and their evolution in EU regions. Marrocu et al (2013), Männasoo et al (2018) and Siller et al (2021) show that human capital endowment has a fundamental impact on TFP growth and that more robust TFP growth is associated with a significant productivity gap. Moreover, they all prove that spillovers are a relevant component of TFP dynamics.…”

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Direct and indirect effects of universities on European regional productivity

Marrocu

Paci

Usaï

2022

Papers in Regional Science

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Universities are fundamental in driving economic performance as they generate human capital, research and knowledge diffusion. We propose a novel analysis by investigating their effects on European regions' total factor productivity (TFP) over the period 2000–2016. We distinguish between direct effects, due to universities societal role (“third mission”), and indirect ones originating from human and technological capital creation. Our contribution is threefold. First and foremost, we provide evidence that the presence of universities has a sizeable impact on regional TFP. Second, this impact spreads across regional boundaries. Third, universities effectively drive human and technological capital growth, thus indirectly fostering productivity enhancements.

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“…Additionally, it has been widely used as a comprehensive measure of social production efficiency in research on the sources of economic growth and sustainable economic development [17]. The existing literature has focused on macro-TFP [18,19] and micro-TFP [20][21][22], as well as factors that affect TFP, such as capital accumulation [23], R and D and innovation in technology [24,25], international trade and globalization [26], and economic shocks [27,28].…”

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Does Low-Carbon City Construction Improve Total Factor Productivity? Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in China

Zhang

Huang

Zhu

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IJERPH

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Low-carbon city construction (LCC) is an important strategy for countries desiring to improve environmental quality, realize cleaner production, and achieve sustainable development. Low-carbon cities have attracted widespread attention for their attempts to coordinate the relationship between environmental protection and economic development. Using the panel data from 2006 to 2017 of prefecture-level cities in China, this study applied the difference-in-differences (DID) method to analyze the effects of LCC on the total factor productivity (TFP) of the cities and its possible transmission mechanism. The results show significantly positive effects on TFP, but the effects on each component of TFP are different. Although the LCC has promoted technical progress and scale efficiency, it has inhibited technical efficiency. The accuracy of the results has been confirmed by several robustness tests. Mechanism analysis showed that the pilot policy of low-carbon cities has promoted technical progress and scale efficiency by technological innovation and the upgrading of industrial structure, but resource mismatches among enterprises have been the main reason for reduced technical efficiency. Regional heterogeneity analysis showed that the effects on TFP in the eastern region have been more significant than in the central and western regions. In the eastern region, they have promoted technical progress, while in the central and western regions, they have promoted technical progress and scale efficiency but hindered technical efficiency. This paper presents our findings for the effects of LCC on economic development and provides insightful policy implications for the improvement of technical efficiency in low-carbon cities.

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What drives total factor productivity growth? An examination of spillover effects

Cited by 13 publications

References 49 publications

R&D Innovation Adoption, Climatic Sensitivity, and Absorptive Ability Contribution for Agriculture TFP Growth in Pakistan

R&D Innovation Adoption, Climatic Sensitivity, and Absorptive Ability Contribution for Agriculture TFP Growth in Pakistan

Direct and indirect effects of universities on European regional productivity

Does Low-Carbon City Construction Improve Total Factor Productivity? Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in China

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