Technical Change, Productivity Growth and Pricing in Australian Manufacturing

澳大利亚制造业的技术变革、生产率增长和定价

• 批准号: DP0343599
• 负责人: Prof Harry Bloch
• 金额: $ 13.95万
• 依托单位: Curtin University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2003-01-01 至 2005-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP0343599
• 关键词: Technical; Change; Productivity; Growth; Pricing

We examine productivity growth and price competitiveness of Australian manufacturing by estimating an econometric model for aggregate manufacturing and as well as individual industries. The parameter estimates from the econometric model are used to identify the separate impacts on productivity growth and price changes due to technical change, economies of scale, capacity utilization and market power. We then estimate how each separate impact is affected by industry characteristics, including seller concentration and investment in physical, human and intellectual capital, and policy related variables, such as tariff rates and degree of unionisation of the labour force. This will provide an important contribution of the knowledge of how the economic environment and government policies impact on productivity growth and the international competitiveness of Australian manufacturing.

我们通过估计总体制造业和个别行业的计量经济学模型来检验澳大利亚制造业的生产率增长和价格竞争力。计量经济学模型的参数估计被用来确定技术变化、规模经济、产能利用和市场力量对生产率增长和价格变化的单独影响。然后，我们估计每个单独的影响如何受到行业特征的影响，包括卖家集中度和对物质、人力和智力资本的投资，以及与政策相关的变量，如关税税率和劳动力工会程度。这将对了解经济环境和政府政策如何影响澳大利亚制造业的生产率增长和国际竞争力做出重要贡献。