西部地区金融发展与城乡收入差距的库兹涅茨效应研究

A Research on Kuznets Effect between Financial Development and Urban-Rural Income Gap in Western China

本文通过分析金融发展影响城乡收入差距的机理,利用1993-2010年的省际面板数据,对西部地区和全国的金融发展水平与城乡收入差距之间的关系进行了比较分析。实证结果表明,西部地区金融发展规模与城乡收入差距之间存在明显的库兹涅茨效应,即二者呈现倒U型关系。除此之外,本文还研究了地方财政支持、就业结构以及地区开放程度对城乡收入差距的影响。在此基础上,本文就加快农村金融体制改革、促进农村经济快速发展、缩小城乡收入差距提出了相应的对策建议。

The paper analyzes the mechanism of the effect of financial development on the urban-rural income gap and compares the relationship between the financial development standard of western areas and the whole country with their respective urban-rural income gap using inter-provincial panel data from 1993 to 2010. The empirical results show that there exists a distinct Kuznets effect between the financial development scale and the urban-rural income gap in western areas, namely an inverted U-type relationship. Meanwhile, the paper also studies the effects of local fiscal support, employment structure and regional opening degree on the urban-rural income gap. On the basis of above analysis, the paper puts forward corresponding countermeasures on how to accelerate the reform of the rural financial system, promote the rapid development of the rural economy and reduce the urban-rural income gap.