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Performance of Cross-strait Economic and Trade Cooperation between Areas Where Taiwan Investment Is Concentrated and Taiwan Province:an Empirical Study Based on DEA-Tobit Approach

Zeng Wei-ha

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This paper uses DEA-Tobit approach to analyze the performance of cross-strait economic and trade cooperation between areas where Taiwan investment is concentrated and Taiwan Province with a panel data of eight regions over the period of 1994-2008.The results reveal that the technical efficiency is not high,which mainly due to scale efficiency.In addition,performances differences of various regions are remarkable.The Tobit regression model shows that the quality of population,transport,level of science technology and Asian financial crisis significantly affects the economic development performance of regions.

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This paper uses DEA-Tobit approach to analyze the performance of cross-strait economic and trade cooperation between areas where Taiwan investment is concentrated and Taiwan Province with a panel data of eight regions over the period of 1994-2008.The results reveal that the technical efficiency is not high,which mainly due to scale efficiency.In addition,performances differences of various regions are remarkable.The Tobit regression model shows that the quality of population,transport,level of science technology and Asian financial crisis significantly affects the economic development performance of regions.

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This paper uses DEA-Tobit approach to analyze the performance of cross-strait economic and trade cooperation between areas where Taiwan investment is concentrated and Taiwan Province with a panel data of eight regions over the period of 1994-2008.The results reveal that the technical efficiency is not high,which mainly due to scale efficiency.In addition,performances differences of various regions are remarkable.The Tobit regression model shows that the quality of population,transport,level of science technology and Asian financial crisis significantly affects the economic development performance of regions.

Key concepts: Tobit model, Panel data, Investment (military), Scale (ratio), Regression analysis, Population, Quality (philosophy), Economics

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