Research Article

Study on the Operation Efficiency of Toll Roads in China from the Perspective of Scale Economy

Table 8

Parameter estimation results.

(I)(II)(III)(IV)
Pooled OLSPanel GMM

Toll7.2131.84513.323.041
(3.74)(2.29)(4.15)(2.63)
Toll_int−20.69−7.119−61.30−12.81
(−2.41)(−1.83)(−2.55)(−1.97)
Eply0.2570.05910.3340.0643
(6.97)(2.95)(5.60)(4.21)
Urban0.0167−0.002380.007790.00290
(−3.50)(−1.30)(−0.91)(−1.91)
(2.82)(2.28)(5.27)(2.48)
Toll_Station−1.5060.6031.8810.845
(−3.71)(3.70)(−4.29)(8.36)
Ltc0.1100.03620.02160.00475
(2.39)(1.81)(0.34)(0.27)
_cons0.1950.209−1.7770.0840
(0.37)(1.00)(−1.47)(0.44)
Hansen test11
AR test0.1360.136
N174174145145

Note.Statistical significance at the 10% level; statistical significance at the 5% level; statistical significance at the 1% level. The t-statistics calculated with the standard error of heteroscedasticity are reported in brackets.