productivity (TFP) growth of 30 Chinese provinces during the period of 1993 to 2003. The random effects model with heteroscedastic … compared with the western region. Foreign direct investment (FDI) and information and communication technology (ICT) investment …

technical change and TFP growth of provinces. -- Technical change ; total factor productivity growth ; technology indicator … trend (purely external non-economic) as well as other exogenous (external economic) factors (technology shifters). We define … technology index based on the external economic factors which are indicators of ‘technology’. Thus our definition of production …

productivity (TFP) growth of 30 Chinese provinces during the period of 1993 to 2003. The random effects model with heteroscedastic … compared with the western region. Foreign direct investment (FDI) and information and communication technology (ICT) investment …

aggregation and empirical misspecification, relying on both theory and empirical evidence. Using data for a stylised aggregate … accommodate technology heterogeneity, variable nonstationarity and the breakdown of the standard crosssection independence … assumption. We focus on technology heterogeneity across sectors and countries and the potential for biased estimates due to …