政府规模、法治水平与服务业发展

Size of Government,Rule of Law,and the Development of Services Sector

本文利用跨国横截面数据,计量检验了政府规模、法治水平与一国服务业比重之间的关系。我们发现,以一国法治水平来衡量的契约维护制度的质量,与其服务业比重显著正相关;政府规模与其服务业比重显著负相关;其中法治水平对服务业比重的影响在中低收入国家更重要。进一步检验表明,统计上无法发现私人财产保护制度对服务业比重的显著影响,而政府支出规模和政府投资规模对服务业比重都有负向的影响。

This paper examines the impact of the size of government, the level of rule of law on the share of services sector by using multinational cress-section data. We found a significant positive correlation between the quality of contracting institution measured by the level of rule of law with the share of services sector, a significant negatively correlation between the size of government with the share of services sector. Furthermore, the rule of law is more important in low- and middle-income countries. Apart from this, Further testing showed that the size of government expenditure and government investment has a negative impact on the service industry, but the property rights institution has not a significant impact.