社会信任、不完全契约与长期经济增长

本文将不完全契约和社会信任引入包含R&D创新的经济增长模型,通过Nash-Rubinstein讨价还价谈判和Bloom-Sadun-Reenen信任模型来刻画企业、中间品厂商和技术创新的关系,在一个内生增长框架下研究了不完全契约条件下社会信任对经济增长的影响。研究发现,社会信任将会促进长期经济增长;不完全契约的实施会扩大其对长期增长率的正影响。在此基础上,使用2000—2010年中国省区25个工业行业数据,采用交互项计量模型,并运用两阶段最小二乘法进行计量检验。结果显示,在控制了FDI、专业化以及社会信任水平的其他传导渠道后,该结论依然稳健。本文在为理解社会信任与经济增长的关系提供新视角的同时,也为政府加强社会诚信建设、促进长期经济增长提供了理论与经验支持。     

税收效应与经济增长

<正> 税收是凭借国家政治权力对国民收入的再分配。它不仅具有纯财政职能,还具有调节经济的职能,因而对整个社会政治、经济、文化等方面产生一定的影响。这种影响我们称之为税收效应。其中税收对经济产生的影响称之为税收的经济效应。那么,税收的经济效应表现在哪几方面?它和经济增长之间又有什么联系呢?这正是下面所要探讨的问题。(一)税收对资源配置的影响     

社会资本的经济增长效应

全面而准确地探究社会资本对长期经济增长的影响机制,对提升社会资本在区域经济发展中的地位具有重大的现实意义,但传统的内生增长模型忽略了时间配置对社会资本积累与居民效用的影响.文章将社会资本积累过程内生化,构建了纳入社会资本的水平创新增长模型,综合考虑社会资本和闲暇时间对经济增长的非单调性影响,通过数值模拟发现:社会资本对经济增长具有边际效应递减的促进作用;而闲暇时间与经济增长之间呈现倒U形关系,即适当地增加闲暇时间有利于社会资本积累.文章还基于结构型社会资本的网络嵌入性特征,构建了地级市层面的社会资本测度指标,以验证社会资本具备生产要素的属性.实证结果表明:社会资本对经济增长具有显著的正向影响,其促进作用随着区域内城市经济发展水平的提高而提升;中西部地区社会资本的产出效率高于东部地区,从而间接反映了东部地区社会资本过度集聚的现状;投资水平与技术进步是社会资本影响经济增长的两条重要途径.上述结论为明晰社会资本的经济属性、激发社会资本的经济效益、推动城市集群协调发展以及缩小地区差异提供了有益的借鉴.     

科研开发与经济增长——兼论科研开发的溢出效应

经济划分为科研部门和非科研部门,科研开发对经济增长的作用及科研对非科研部门具有外溢效应。1999-2003年30个省市自治区的面板数据表明,科研开发对经济增长具有较大的拉动作用,同时科研开发部门对其他部门的外溢作用明显为正。     

论经济增长与社会发展的失衡

本文研究了快速增长的中国经济中经济增长与社会发展的失衡问题,认为失衡会严重影响中国经济社会的健康发展。失衡的表现是多方面的,失衡的原因在于单纯的经济增长主义、经济政策与社会政策的混淆和政府与市场功能的错位。本文的结论是应按照转变经济发展方式的要求校正失衡。     

政府、社会信任与经济增长

正式和非正式规则是维持经济社会信任和商业合作的两种重要制度安排,但这两种规则往往内生于一国的经济发展水平和国家战略。本文研究表明,在一国经济发展过程中,不断降低的利率扩大了资本借贷的规模,使得非正式规则不断逼近其“信任半径”⁽(1))的边界,非正式规则逐步让位于正式规则。更为重要的是,在一国经济发展的早期,非正式规则对经济的增长做出了重要贡献,并且这种贡献与一国硬件基础设施存量、法制的效率、信息不完备的程度成反比。我们还发现一国政府在经济发展早期的基础设施投资时,会内生地优先投资于硬件基础设施而不是软件基础设施,直至经济发展的后期,当市场规模和范围的扩大制约了非正式规则的扩张,软件基础设施投资才是一国政府基础设施投资的重点。跨国的微观和宏观数据在经验层面证实了本文的主要结论。     

Trust and growth: a shaky relationship

We conduct an extensive robustness analysis of the relationship between trust and growth by investigating a later time period and a bigger sample than in previous studies. In addition to robustness tests that focus on model uncertainty, we systematize the investigation of outlier influence on the results by using the robust estimation technique Least Trimmed Squares. We find that when outliers (especially China) are removed, the trust-growth relationship is no longer robust. On average, the trust coefficient is half as large as in previous findings.      

社会资本外部性的经济分析——以信任关系为例

以往理论研究与经验研究均指出社会资本具有正面的效应,但对这种效应是怎样取得的并无共识.我们尝试建立一个不完全信息动态博弈模型,说明社会资本-信任如何产生正的外部性,亦即产生超出个体理性计算之外的利益.我们的分析得出这样的结论,在一个多人互动的环境中,能否达到彼此合作或彼此信任,虽然会受到欺骗者所遭到的惩罚与欺骗利益多少的影响,但主要受到所处环境中具有社会资本者人数比例的影响.因此,可以说社会资本具有正的网络外部性,信任者人数越多,信任者所享受到的利益越大.     

社会互动、信任与股市参与

什么影响了居民的股市参与?采用2004年广东省居民调查数据,本文发现,社会互动和信任都推动了居民参与股市。股市低迷造成的普遍性股票投资损失会降低社会互动的积极作用,而社会互动对低学历居民参与股市的正面影响更为明显。此外,高收入、高学历、高年龄的居民股市参与也更积极。我们的研究为资本市场的发展架设了一个新的社会结构和社会特征的政策视角:加强社会互动、提高诚信水平,这些都是推动公众参与股市所不可忽略和或缺的。     

OCA Issue in East Asia under the Pressure of Chinese RMB Appreciation

As the rumor that RMB will appreciate in the near future, most Asian currencies had appreciated according to this matter since the appreciation of Chinese RMB will strengthen the exports of those Asian counties, thus appreciate the currencies of those countries. An OCA matter here comes again to the Asian countries. As we all know, Euro has been formally used among European areas since 1999, and this is the fir.st time that the optimum currency system was adopted in the international history. Asia, as another area that has most development potentiality in the world, should it adopt the monetary integration process as well？ In this paper the necessary conditions to form an OCA are analyzed; European experience are conjured with the own feature of East Asia areas; possibilities of forming the OCA in East Asia are concluded as well as the resistances; besides the potential process of forming an OCA is suggested.     

Environmental rationalities and the development state in East Asia: Prospects for a sustainability transition

This paper reviews what is known about recent trends in environmental governance among the newly industrializing countries of East Asia and the implications of these developments for a sustainability transition within the region. The conceptual starting point for the review is research that examines sustainability transitions within the framework of a multi-level perspective on system innovation. One of the challenges presented by this framework is that of understanding how existing political economies and governance structures promote stability or change in socio-technical regimes. By socio-technical regimes we mean the predominant organizational, social and technological configurations through which societal needs are constituted and met. In the case of the rapidly industrializing and urbanizing economies of East Asia, the trajectory of socio-technical regimes will have profound consequences for local, regional and global environments. Our review of trends in environmental governance as they relate to socio-technical regimes within the region traces a pattern of initial efforts to strengthen environmental regulatory regimes very much along the lines of the policy models of OECD economies. The degree to which these initial efforts have taken root varies from country to country in the region. What is beginning to emerge in several countries within the region, however, are a variety of policy and institutional innovations that hold promise for opening up spaces for change in socio-technical regimes, and for creating opportunities for new pathways of industrialization and urbanization to take hold that are less pollution, materials and energy-intensive.     

制度因素与东亚双边贸易:贸易引力模型的实证分析

银行与金融、政府干预、黑市活动、资本流动与外国投资、货币政策对东亚经济体出口贸易有重要影响,银行与金融、政府干预、产权、政府负担对东亚经济体进口贸易有重要影响。提高政府干预质量,积极合理地引进国际直接投资,建立并完善公正廉洁高效的司法体系应成为东亚经济体各政府未来重要的政策取向。     

东亚消费风险分担的度量及潜在福利分析

文章利用1970-2004年的相关数据,度量了东亚13个经济体的消费风险分担的程度以及东亚地区在实现完全风险分担后带来的潜在福利收益.实证结果表明:东亚区域资本市场在平滑GDP冲击方面的作用非常小,对区域借贷市场虽有一定的作用,但较为有限,这说明东亚的消费风险分担程度还相当低;相比OECD国家和欧盟国家,东亚各经济体风险分担的福利收益是比较高的.     

当前东亚国际体系转型的特点及趋势

东亚国际体系在冷战结束前曾经历过朝贡体系、殖民体系和两极体系三次大的转型过程．这个体系演进的历史轨迹为现今东亚国际体系转型留下了众多的历史遗产,并最终形成当前东亚国际体系转型的独特之点,表现为中国作为新兴国家与地区各种力量之间关系的持续调整．美国作为区域外国家在东亚地区影响力的持续存在,区域经济整合与权力结构调整对东亚国际体系的共同塑造,东亚在体系转型过程中稳定性与对抗性的持续并存等,在这些特征基础上,东亚国际体系转型的趋势可以概括为三个主要方面,即“两国关系的调整,两种体系的博弈,一个共识的构建”。也就是中关关系将是东亚国际体系转型的主线,以经济来塑造政治将是体系转型的重要方式．利益协调与共识的建立将是努力的主要方向。     

Financing of innovation: national development banks in newly industrialized countries of East Asia

Abstract

Contemporary literature on innovation tends to overlook the issue of financing, whereas financial history suggests that banks have been essential to financing of new industries. Emerging literature ondevelopment banking, although inspiring, remains focused on financing policies. The article aims to rearticulate a coevolutionary nature of industrial and financial interests, following the works of Schumpeter and Minsky, by looking at the 4 cases of national development banks, tasked with long-term financing of industries, from newly industrialized countries of East Asia—South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and Malaysia. The study suggests that innovation in finance, as well as organizational innovation in financial institutions, represent essential elements of financing of innovative activities. Further, organizational innovation in financial institutions, such as development banks, might signify a disposition to face uncertainty, which characterizes economic and technological unknowns inherent in financing of innovation.     

Foreign interest rate shocks and exchange rate regimes in East Asia

Using a theoretical dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model and an empirical panel vector autoregression, we assess the transmission of foreign real interest rate shocks on the volatility of various key macroeconomic variables in nine small open economies in East Asia taking into account the role of exchange rate regimes. Both the theoretical and empirical findings confirm the hypothesis that flexible exchange rate may work as a shock absorber when the economy is hit by foreign real interest rate shocks. The findings suggest a clear trade-off between the volatility of real exchange rate and real output to foreign interest rate shocks, both the US and G7 real interest rates, where the responses of real output are mitigated in countries that have more flexible exchange rate regime.