地区性行政垄断的经济增长效应

On the Economic Growth Effect of Regional Administrative Monopoly

地区性行政垄断是指地方政府运用行政权力对市场竞争的限制和排斥,往往造成了要素价格扭曲,进而诱致地方保护和市场分割。本文基于一个经济增长模型,并将地区性行政垄断指数纳入该模型中,实证研究了地区性行政垄断对经济增长的影响以及这种影响在开放程度不同的地方会发生什么样的变化。结果表明,地区性行政垄断与经济增长呈倒U型关系,而且经济开放程度越高,地区性行政垄断越不利于经济增长。

The regional administrative monopoly refers to the restrictions on and exclusion of market competition by local governments by means of their administrative power, which usually causes distortion of the factor price and further leads to the local protection and market segmentation. Based on an economic growth model which accommodates the index of the regional administrative monopoly, this article empirically studies the impact of the regional administrative monopoly on the economic growth and the changes brought by this kind of influence at different places with different degrees of opening. The results indicate that the relationship between the regional administrative monopoly and the economic growth presents an inverted U shape; the higher the opening degree is, the more unfavorable the regional administrative monopoly to the economic growth will be.