Industrial Policy in Great Britain and Its Effect on Total Factor Productivity in Manufacturing Plants, 1990–1998

Harris, Richard; Robinson, Catherine

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“…(1996); and no effect in Lundvall and Battese (2000). Although not the main focus of their paper, using UK data Harris & Robinson (2004a) and Harris (2010) find evidence of a negative relationship between age and TFP.…”

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Plant-level determinants of total factor productivity in Great Britain, 1997–2008

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Moffat

2015

J Prod Anal

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AcknowledgementsThis work contains statistical data from ONS which is Crown copyright and reproduced with the permission of the controller of HMSO and Queen's Printer for Scotland. The use of the ONS statistical data in this work does not imply the endorsement of the ONS in relation to the interpretation or analysis of the statistical data. This work uses research datasets which may not exactly reproduce National Statistics aggregates. Abstract This paper examines the determinants of total factor productivity (TFP) using a GB plantlevel dataset. Using a systems-GMM approach, it considers the role of the following four plant characteristics: internal and external knowledge; foreign ownership, multi-plant economies of scale and competition; and spatial spillovers and 'place' effects. The sample is disaggregated into manufacturing and services and by technology to show any differences across sectors. In terms of knowledge, undertaking R&D is positively associated with TFP in most sectors. Plant age is generally negatively related to TFP suggesting that the older vintages of technology embodied in the capital of older plants is outweighing any learningby-doing effect. Foreign ownership is positively related to TFP although there is no obvious TFP ranking in terms of which investing country does better, or in terms of the method by which FDI is undertaken. Manufacturing industries are generally found to operate under conditions of increasing returns-to-scale while service industries generally have decreasing returns. Across most sectors, single plant enterprises have higher TFP than plants belonging to multi-plant enterprises operating in only one region, but lower TFP than plants belonging to multi-plant enterprises with plants in more than one region. Industry concentration (proxying competition) has both positive and negative impacts on TFP across sectors. The agglomeration variable is generally positive and significant for services but less so in manufacturing. A measure of diversification is negatively related to TFP for most sectors although this association is only statistically significant for four out of eight sectors. This may suggest that congestion diseconomies are important. Plants located in cities generally perform better than plants in the same region outside of these cities; but with the exception of London, plants in the South-East have higher TFP levels. This suggests that spatial externalities associated with city location are not as important as the benefits of being situated in the South East region.

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“…al. (2003a,b), Harris and Drinkwater (2000), Harris (2001Harris ( , 2004, Collins andHarris (2002, 2005), Harris and Robinson (2002, 2004a, Harris and Hassaszadeh (2002), Chapple et. al.…”

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Plant-level determinants of total factor productivity in Great Britain, 1997–2008

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Moffat

2015

J Prod Anal

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“…The parameter results from estimation of equation (1) (HARRIS and ROBINSON, 2004), 'mixed' results are obtained here (Table 4). Our parameter estimates of a 'Glasgow-effect' show that, cet.…”

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The sources of the Scotland–Rest of the UK productivity gap: implications for policy

Harris

Moffat

2016

Regional Studies

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The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. ABSTRACTThis paper finds that aggregate total factor productivity in Scotland was 16% below the 'rest of the UK' in 2012. This is mainly due to negative 'non-place' effects in the service sector. It is also found that new plant start-ups and foreign-owned plants contributed negatively to TFP growth during 1997-2012. This casts doubt on whether continuing to focus on increasing the rate of new firm formation and foreign investment will result in a 'step-change' in productivity growth.

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“…One well-known categorization of spillovers is intraindustry, interindustry and agglomeration/network (Harris & Robinson, 2004). Intraindustry spillovers from FDI are technological spillovers that affect firms (competitors) in the same industry.…”

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J Int Bus Stud

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Industrial Policy in Great Britain and Its Effect on Total Factor Productivity in Manufacturing Plants, 1990–1998

Cited by 50 publications

References 14 publications

Plant-level determinants of total factor productivity in Great Britain, 1997–2008

Plant-level determinants of total factor productivity in Great Britain, 1997–2008

The sources of the Scotland–Rest of the UK productivity gap: implications for policy

Letter from the Editor-in-Chief: FDI spillovers and linkages

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