Abstract

This article invests in analyzing the impact of economic agglomeration on the technical efficiency of small and medium-sized enterprises: evidence from Vietnam. The stochastic frontier analysis and the general method of moments were employed to analyze data collected from the enterprise surveys of the General Statistics Office of Vietnam in the period 2013–2016. The research results show that technical efficiency and economic agglomeration tend to increase in Vietnamese small and medium-sized enterprises. Moreover, the economic agglomeration contributes positively to the increase in technical efficiency, while the upstream economic agglomeration has not made a clear contribution to the technical efficiency of small and medium-sized enterprises in Vietnam. At the same time, factors such as cost management effectiveness, firm age, and export activities play an active role in improving technical efficiency for Vietnamese small and medium-sized enterprises.

摘要

本文投资分析经济集聚对中小企业技术效率的影响：来自越南的证据。采用随机前沿分析和一般矩量法分析越南国家统计局 2013-2016 年企业调查收集的数据。研究结果表明，越南中小企业的技术效率和经济集聚度呈上升趋势。此外，经济集聚对技术效率的提高有积极贡献，而上游经济集聚对越南中小企业技术效率的贡献并不明显。同时，成本管理效率、企业年龄等因素，