Research Article

Fuzzy Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) Applied to the Driving Mechanism of Total Factor Productivity Growth

Table 2

Summary statistics of all the variables.

VariablesObservationsMeanStandard deviationMaxMin

TFP301.15970.08971.3280.966
SFD (loan balance/GDP)301.61600.40352.57131.0361
EFD (new loan/added value of financial industry)302.12230.76693.52240.2196
FIL (total investment of foreign-invested enterprises/GDP)300.54360.45601.75420.1238
GEL (budget expenditure/GDP)300.26510.10920.63370.1200
TII (number of patent applications accepted/permanent population)3027.262325.5787103.24795.7722