| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中央大學 === 產業經濟研究所在職專班 === 103 === In this study, the information retrieved from the bureau of industrial and commercial census, year 95 of Taiwan was used to investigate the factors influencing the investment in software and database, and the consequential effects in the productivity and profitability from the perspective of the investing firms. Solow-residual productivity measurement is adopted, and Logit and Tobit are applied respectively in investment in software and database in terms of firm scales in empirical estimation. The result indicates high positive-correlation between the investment in software and database and firm scale, capital concentration, deployment of electronic trades, exportation rates in corporate sales while no obvious correlation with firm age. PSM is adopted to analyze the impact caused by software and database investment to productivity and profitability, and the result indicates, by Nearest neighbor and Kernel matching, 1.) the productivity is higher amongst those firms that invest in software and database, 2.) the investment in software and database is not prominent factor in firm profitability.
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