Indonesian Local Government Spending,Taxing and Saving: An Explanation of Pre‐ and Post‐decentralization Fiscal Outcomes*

As a result of Indonesia's decentralization program, local governments have gained significantly more responsibility for service delivery, considerably larger fiscal resources, and much greater authority over the use of those resources than before. The present paper develops a simple budget model to describe and explain the substantial differences in pre‐ and post‐decentralization local government fiscal behavior related to spending, taxing and saving. During the post‐decentralization period special attention is paid to the fiscal behavior of natural resource rich regions. Among other things, the evidence suggests that: post‐decentralization local government spending is partly responsive to increasing needs and partly the subject of elite capture; local government taxation has become more aggressive under decentralization and appears to be mostly driven by local bureaucratic expectations related to routine overhead budgets; and the increased savings of local governments during the post‐decentralization period is determined to a large degree by delayed central government transfer payments.     

Industry evolution and R&D externalities

R&D externalities can imply ranges of aggregate increasing returns to scale in R&D. As a consequence several equilibria can exist involving different numbers of firms and different R&D investment levels. In a theoretical model the equilibrium dynamics are analyzed, showing that cyclical fluctuations of the number of firms and R&D investment may be expected, and that the long-run equilibrium is highly sensitive to investors' initial beliefs. The model is tested empirically using a unique database comprising competing firms in various R&D races.     

Sources of Sectoral Growth in an Economy Wide Context: The Case of U.S. Agriculture

Growth in U.S. agriculture is linked to the non-farm economy through domestic terms of trade and factor market adjustments. With almost stable input growth, the relatively large contributions from growth in Total Factor Productivity (TFP) are passed on to intermediate and final consumers in the form of declining real prices for primary farm products. The resulting net growth in the real value of farm output (GDP) is relatively low (0.25% per annum). The decomposition of TFP suggests that public agricultural stock of knowledge and infrastructure are robustly associated with TFP growth, while spill-overs from private agricultural and economy wide research and development (R and D) are positive but, relatively small.     

声誉机制对环境规制效率的影响研究——基于环境保护财政资金的绩效评价视角

在基于环境保护财政资金的绩效评价视角上，采用博弈论的分析框架，先后使用无限期重复博弈模型和KMRW声誉模型来解释环境保护财政资金使用者声誉机制对环境规制效率的影响。     

国家审计对地方财政支出结构的影响研究

运用国家审计理论,依据2007—2018年中国30个省份相关数据,考量国家审计对地方财政支出结构的影响机制以及财政资金使用效率和财政压力的中介效应。结果表明,国家审计对地方财政支出结构影响显著,国家审计通过提高财政资金使用效率和缓解财政压力两种机制影响地方财政支出结构;同时,财政资金使用效率与财政压力在国家审计提升地方社会性支出占比中发挥链式中介作用。鉴于此,应充分发挥国家审计治理效能,秉持研究型审计新理念,优化地方财政支出结构;开展财政资金绩效审计,提升地方财政资金使用效率。     

建立和完善国库集中收付制度的构想

建立和完善国库集中收付制度,是社会主义市场经济体制下公共财政的发展要求。借鉴国际通行做法和成功经验,结合我国具体国情,建立和完善以国库单一账户体系为基础、资金缴拨以国库集中收付为主要形式的财政国库管理制度。有利于进一步加强财政监督,提高资金使用效益,更好地发挥财政在宏观调控中的作用。本文首先分析了建立国库集中收付制度面临的新问题,在充分调查研究基础上,提出了建立和完善国库集中收付制度构想。     

财政政策与经济增长——基于内生货币框架的分析

在内生的货币金融体系下，财政作为另外一层意义上的货币政策，可以在很大程度上改变银行和企业的资产负债表，调节资本存量和收入分配，从而对经济增长的稳定发挥重要作用。结合中国宏观经济运行状况，具体考察了财政政策手段对宏观经济、企业及货币供应量的影响，发现财政政策只有和货币政策协调配合使用，才能达到存量与流量的平衡，从而保证经济的稳定增长。     

从外部性控制策略分析主要环境经济手段的异同

随着世界经济的发展,环境污染问题日益严峻。环境污染是最典型的负外部行为。本文分析了西方经济理论中关于控制环境方面负外部性两种策略的分歧,对比了以这两种策略为理论渊源的排污收费制度和排污权交易制度的异同及各自的适用条件。     

我国产业链存在的问题及其财政对策

我国的产业链存在链条短、个别环节缺失、环节之间衔接不紧以及各环节发展不协调等问题,而基础设施不健全、生产要素市场不发达、利益分配机制不合理及地方保护主义阻碍等则是问题的成因。要解决这些问题需采取如下财政对策:加大基础设施建设的财政投融资力度;增加用于培育生产要素市场的资金的投入;优化利益分配机制;进一步深化财政体制改革。     

建立突发性公共事务财政投入体系的对策研究

突发性公共事务的财政投入体系是防范和化解公共事务危害的最后一道防线。针对我国公共财政的实际情况,建立突发性公共事务财政投入体系的对策应包括:实现突发性公共事务财政投入形式的多样化及预备费的基金式管理,加大事前预防性财政投入的比例,编制突发性公共事务预算,并遵循预算编制和执行的原则,以实现提高我国政府管理突发性公共事务水平的目标。