中国式财政分权与地方政府规模膨胀的关系及实证检验

中国式财政分权体制下，中央和地方之间形成了较为稳固的政治维持关系，即当地方出现财政风险时，中央不会坐视不理。主要体现在两个方面：一方面放任预算外资金规模的膨胀；另一方面，通过不断扩大转移支付（特别是财力性转移支付）力度来援助地方。通过实证研究，表明中国式财政分权对地方政府规模的膨胀没有起到有效的抑制作用。

Analysis and Empirical Test on Chinese Style Fiscal Decentralization and Local Government Size-expansion

In Chinese style decentralization system,central and local government form stable political relation.Central government will not turn a blind eye to local government’s financial crisis in that it will either let off-budget capital scale expand or assist local government by increasing more fiscal transfer payment.The empirical study shows that Chinese style fiscal decentralization fails to limit local government’s scale expanding effectively.