寻租、企业家才能配置和资源诅咒——基于中国省份面板数据的实证研究

文章结合中国现实,通过构建一个具有规模报酬递增性质的企业家才能配置模型,从自然资源导致的寻租空间对企业家才能配置的扭曲这一微观视角考察"资源诅咒"问题,并运用我国省份面板数据进行了实证检验。结果表明,自然资源禀赋的增加会直接提高企业家寻租的预期收益,进而使企业家才能从低回报的生产性部门转向高回报的寻租部门,这种扭曲会降低地区的经济增长率,产生"资源诅咒"现象。为确定寻租导致的企业家才能配置扭曲是否是自然资源禀赋影响我国不同省份经济增长水平的中介变量,文章实证检验了相应的中介效应,检验结果显示中介效应显著。

Rent-seeking,the Allocation of Entrepreneurial Talent,and Natural Resource Curse: An Empirical Research Based on Provincial Panel Data in China

Based on the reality in China,this paper discusses the resource curse from the micro economic perspective of a distortion of the allocation of entrepreneurial talent resulting from rent-seeking by establishing a model concerning the allocation of entrepreneurial talent with the nature of increasing returns to scale,and employs the provincial panel data to make an empirical test.The results show that the increase in natural resource endowments directly improves the expected returns of entrepreneurial rent-seeking,thereby leading to the shift of entrepreneurial talent from productive sectors with low returns to rent-seeking sectors with high returns;and this distortion reduces regional economic growth,resulting in a resource curse.In order to confirm the intermediary effect of a distortion of the allocation of entrepreneurial talent on the effect of natural resource endowments on provincial economic growth,it makes an intermediary effect test and arrives at a significant conclusion.