Technical efficiency of FDI firms in the Vietnamese manufacturing sector

• Authors: Hoang Duong Vu
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The study examines technical efficiency of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) firms in the Vietnamese manufacturing sector by applying stochastic production frontier model and making use of cross-sectional data in the period 2009-2013. The average level of technical efficiency of FDI firms is about 60% and it is higher than that of domestic firms (including private firms and state-owned firms). In addition, the study also analyses correlation between technical efficiency of FDI firms and other factors. It finds that there are positive correlations between FDI technical efficiency and net revenue per labour, firm’s age or export activities in 2013. However, the study is unable to find evidence of a relationship between FDI technical efficiency and infrastructure or firm’s investment activities.

Keywords

EN

FDI; Stochastic production frontier; Technical efficiency; Vietnam

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Review of Economic Perspectives
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 16
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 205-230

Dates

published

2016-09-01

received

2016-02-26

accepted

2016-07-29

online

2016-10-13

Contributors

author

Hoang Duong Vu

• Student at Faculty of Management and Economics, Tomas Bata University in Zlin
• Researcher at Vietnam Institute of Economics, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences,

Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/revecp-2016-0013