省长留学经历与FDI——来自中国的经验证据

Overseas Education Experience of Governors and FDI:Empirical Evidence from China

虽然FDI促进了中国经济的发展,但是呈现出不平衡的分布现象。现有文献从多个视角对此做出了解释,却忽略了地方官员特征的作用。在地区分权威权体制下,地方官员面临发展经济的双重激励,他们会竞相争取FDI流入本地,而具有留学经历的地方官员可以利用其留学经历所赋予的优势去吸引FDI流入本地。文章利用1986~2013年中国省级面板数据考察地方官员留学经历对FDI的影响,结果表明,具有留学经历的省长1确实能显著地促进FDI流入本地,而具有留学经历的省委书记对FDI却没有显现出作用。此外,稳健性检验和敏感性分析同样支持该结论。至于省委书记和省长的差异,可能是由于二者在经济工作中的角色差异造成的,即前者侧重于战略上的把握而后者偏向于具体事务的执行。

Although FDI promoted the development of China＇s economy, but it presents the phenomenon of uneven distribution. The existing literatures hay several perspectives, but ignored the role of local officials＇ e explained the characteristics. phenomenon from In the regionally decentralized authoritarian system, local officials faced with the dual incentives for economic development, so they will compete for FDI to flow into the local. And for the advantages conferred by overseas education experience, local officials with overseas education experience could significantly promote FDI inflow to the local. Using China＇s provincial panel data from 1986 to 2013, this article investigated the influence of local officials＇ overseas education experience on FDI. The results showed that, governors with study abroad experience really can significantly promote local inflow of FDI, and secretaries of provincial party committee with overseas education experience have no effect on local FDI. Additionally, the robustness test and sensitivity analysis also supports this conclusion. As for the differences of party committee secretaries and provincial governors, may be due to the difference in the role of economic works, which the former focuses on the strategic grasp and the latter tend to the implementation of specific matters.