The Role of Transport Infrastructures in determining Technical Efficiency in R&D activity of Italian regions. A double-bootstrapped DEA procedure

Claudia Capozza, Angela Bergantino and Angela De Carlo

ERSA conference papers from European Regional Science Association

Abstract: We measure technical efficiency in R&D of Italian regions with the aim of understanding whether the variation in transport infrastructure endowment across regions might be the cause of efficiency disparities. We use a semi-parametric method where in the first step we estimate bootstrapped efficiency scores through DEA. In the second step, efficiency scores are explained in a bootstrapped truncated regression using transport infrastructure variables as non-discretionary inputs. We find that well-developed transport infrastructures seriously improve R&D efficiency by facilitating connections and, thus, knowledge transfer.

Keywords: R&D investiments; efficiency; Three-step DEA (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 O32 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-11
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