Essays on estimating firm-level production function with spatial dependence

• Main Author: NG, Bo Lin
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2024
• Subjects: global value chains; firm-level productivity; value added; employment; productivity estimation; productivity spillover; spatial dependence; buyer-seller network; Econometrics
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/etd_coll/629; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/etd_coll/article/1627/viewcontent/PhD_Dissertation_Ng_Bo_Lin.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This dissertation consists of two chapters on the estimation of firm-level production functions when spatial effects are present. In joint work with Pao-Li Chang, chapter 1 focuses on the impacts of global value chains (GVC) on the firm-level outcomes of Singapore. First, we quantify Singapore’s par...