分权式改革对经济增长影响的实证研究

中国的分权式改革是财政分权、行政分权和经济分权的三重分权过程,仅仅选择单一维度的分权指标,无法准确确认分权的经济增长效应。通过构建分权的多维衡量指标体系,并以1998-2011年省级面板数据为样本,全面分析了分权式改革对经济增长的影响。实证结果显示:分权整体上促进了地方经济增长,但不同维度的分权对经济增长的影响效应并不相同。此外,分权对经济增长的影响还存在显著的地区差异,东部地区分权的经济增长优势高于中西部地区。

An Empirical Study of the Impact of Decentralization Reform on Economic Growth

China's decentralization reform is a triple decentralization process of fiscal decentralization, administrative decentralization and economic decentralization. We can not accurately confirm the economic growth effects of decentralization reforms just by using the single-dimension indicators. This paper constructs a multi-dimensional indicator system of Chinese-style decentralization, uses provincial government panel data from 1998 to 2011 to analyze the impact of China's decentralization reforms on economic growth empirically. The results showed that: Chinese-style decentralization indeed promoted local economic growth as a whole, but different dimensions of decentralization had different impacts on China's economic growth. Moreover, the economic growth effects of decentralization has significant regional differences, and this effects in eastern region is higher than the central and western regions.