制度质量对外资银行进入的影响——基于腐败控制维度的研究

腐败控制是制度质量提升的一个重要维度。金融业务的典型“契约密集”特征将强化腐败对外资银行进入的摩擦,而外资银行作为纯粹的市场“新进入者”也面临高昂的“有效腐败”成本,因此,腐败阻碍外资银行进入,通过腐败控制来提升制度质量将有利于银行业开放。本文基于中国分省主观认知数据,以县域人口规模与矿产资源丰裕度作为工具变量,识别了制度质量对外资银行进入的影响。文章表明,坚持以反腐倡廉作为提升制度质量的重要政策支点,将有利于推进银行业乃至整个金融业的对外开放进程。     

Corruption, Growth, and Income Distribution: Are there Regional Differences?

This paper uses panel data from 61 countries at different stages of economic development over a 20-year period to investigate regional differences in the effect of corruption on economic growth and income distribution. Using two measures of corruption, we find that there are statistically significant regional differences in the growth and distributional impacts of corruption. The largest growth impact of corruption is found in African countries while OECD and Asian countries have the lowest growth impact. On the other hand, the largest distributional impact of corruption in found in Latin America. A 10% decrease in corruption increases the growth rate of income by about 1.7% in OECD and Asian countries, 2.6% in Latin American countries, and by 2.8% in African countries. A one standard deviation decrease in corruption decreases the gini coefficient of income distribution (0–1 scale) by 0.05 points, 0.14 points, 0.25 points, and 0.33 points in OECD, Asian, African, and Latin American countries, respectively. The results are robust to various specifications, measurement of corruption, measures of investment, as well as the conditioning variables. The results have interesting policy implications for economic growth, especially in low income countries with high rates of corruption.     

The interaction effect of economic freedom and democracy on corruption: A panel cross-country analysis

This paper examines the effects of economic freedom, democracy and its interaction term on controlling corruption. Interactive results indicate that economic freedom and democracy significantly combat corruption. Economic freedom reduces corruption in any political environment. Democracy increases corruption when economic liberalization is low.     

寻租与腐败的经济学分析

转轨时期,在市场机会大幅增加而制度约束处于不完备的状态下出现了权力资本化现象,导致受权力租金诱惑的政府官员产生出租权力以获得私利的动机与行为,从而形成寻租与腐败蔓延的现象。因此强化权力监督、实行“以薪养廉”,并逐步使政府退出市场就成为抑制寻租与腐败的根本对策。     

Corruption and cross-border investment by multinational firms

Motivated by previous studies on the effect of corruption on foreign direct investment, we examine the impact of a distance measure of corruption between host and source countries on cross-border direct investment and find that corruption distance deters cross-border investment. The evidence indicates that corruption distance is not as serious a deterrent of outward direct investment from more-corrupt countries as it is from less-corrupt countries. We conclude that multinational firms with the capacity to engage in bribery can disregard this activity in transparent environments, whereas multinational firms accustomed to operating in transparent environments find it difficult to overcome the administrative complexities in corrupt environments. Journal of Comparative Economics 34 (4) (2006) 839–856.     

中国反腐败机制的解读与完善——基于近五年反腐败典型案件透视

改革开放以来,由于受新旧体制转换、法制不健全、社会伦理道德偏差等因素的影响,腐败现象在我国呈现出不断蔓延的趋势。基于如此态势,执政者和学界从立法建议、制度建设、廉政伦理等角度给予了充分的关注。通过对《反腐倡廉年度报告》（2006~2010）中反腐败典型案例的透视,考察我国反腐败的治理实践,反思我国反腐败的制度表达,进而提出：为了加强反腐败力度,应当进一步完善我国的反腐败机制,将现有的反腐败实践纳入法治化的轨道,并且不断强化法定反腐败机构的职能,整合反腐败的力量,不断协调＂党纪＂和＂国法＂的衔接。