面向地级政府的分权及其增长效应

Fiscal Decentralization,Administrative Decentralization of Local Governments and the Economic Growth Effect

在我国,上级政府的分权包括财政分权和行政分权,现有的研究主要关注的是财政分权在省级政府层面的影响.对于财政分权和行政分权对地级行政区的经济增长的影响,利用我国2002年到2006年的地级行政区域的数据进行了实证检验.结果显示,财政分权能够促进地区经济增长,而且东部地区的效果要优于西部地区,而行政分权对经济增长既有有利的一面,又有不利的一面,在东部地区其综合效应为负,西部地区综合效应则为正.

In China, the decentralization of the higher government includes fiscal decentralization and ad- ministrative decentralization, and the present research focuses on the fiscal decentralization at the provincial level. This paper makes an empirical study on the impact of the fiscal decentralization and administrative decentrali- zation on the economic growth of administrative regions with the relative data from 2002 to 2006. The result indicates that fiscal decentralization can promote regional economic growth, and the effect of the eastern region is better than that of the western region. However, the impact of administrative decentralization on economic growth is both beneficial and negative. The combined effect in the eastern region is negative and in the western region is positive.