Korean Augmented Production Function: The Role Of Services And Other Factors In Korea¡¯S Economic Growth Of Industries

Elias Sanidas () and Hyeri Park
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Elias Sanidas: Department of Economics, Seoul National University
Hyeri Park: Department of Economics, Seoul National University

Journal of Economic Development, 2011, vol. 36, issue 1, 59-85

Abstract: It is well known that economic growth and services have a positive association. In particular, the more developed an economy is, the higher the share of the services sector. While most research has focused on service output, this study also examines services as input. Recently, the need for taking services a separate input in the production function has come to the fore. Therefore, the OECD productivity manual generalizes the KLEM model to KLEMS (capital-labor-energy-materials-services) model by including the services as an input. We use KLEMS data in this study. In addition, we augmented the standard production function with other variables such as the inventory to sales ratio, R&D to sales ratio, education expenditure to sales ratio, and the debt to sales ratio. The findings are encouraging and lead us to formulate some important conclusions; for example, after the 1998 Financial Crisis, the Korean economy has increased in efficiency and this is partly due to an increased importance of services as both output and input.

Keywords: Services; Manufacturing; Production Function; Korean Industries; Financial Crisis; Panel Data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C2 L1 L2 L6 L8 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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