Technical Efficiency of The Vietnam's Manufacture of Chemical and Chemical Products: A Dual Approach
Tam Tran
No 17, Working Papers from Development and Policies Research Center (DEPOCEN), Vietnam
Abstract:
This paper is on its way to estimate the technical efficiency (TE) level and identify the sources of technical inefficiency (TIE) of the Vietnam Manufacture of Chemicals and Chemical Products (MCCP) or the chemical industry, using the stochastic frontier cost function and the sample data of 95 MCCP's firms drawn from the Economic Census for Enterprises conducted by the General Statistic Office in 2002.
The empirical results show that the mean TE of the industry is 1.50, implying that the cost of inefficiency of the MCCP is 50 percent above the costs defined by the frontier and also provide that the such firm specific factors as the borrowing to total capital ratio, the service to intermediate cost ratio, ownership and location are the determinants of TIE of the chemical industry.
Based on the TE analysis, some policy implications are proposed for a better performance of TE in the MCCP.
The manufacture of chemicals and chemical products - MCCP, is an important industry that seems to attract the relatively considerable attention of the State of Vietnam. Despite of certain achievements that contribute to scientific and economic development of Vietnam, according to the Ministry of Industry, the chemical industry is of low competitiveness, backward technology, leading to high production costs, high consumption of raw materials, then high prices and poor quality of products. The TE improvement involves the identification of TE level and determinants of TIE, raising the need for the quantitative study on the industry's efficiency performance. Based on the empirical results, appropriate policies are proposed to minimize the level of the industry's TIE.
Keywords: Technical efficiency; Vietnam; Technical inefficiency; Chemical Product (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2007
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