地方政府竞争、公共品供给与消费

Local Government Competition, Public Goods Supply and Consumption

晋升锦标赛下地方政府竞争作为政府公共品供给失衡背后的深层体制特征,对政府消费和居民消费产生了直接和间接影响。本文构建地方政府竞争、公共品供给和消费的理论框架,结合地方政府竞争方式和世代交叠模型进行理论分析,进一步利用1993-2018年中国省级面板数据进行实证检验。研究结果表明:地方政府竞争对政府消费产生负向影响;采用投资偏向性竞争方式对居民消费产生负向影响,采用民生偏向性竞争方式则对居民消费产生正向影响;地方政府竞争通过强化生产性公共品供给对政府消费和居民消费形成负向间接影响。鉴于此,逐步完善政府官员考核机制和财政约束机制,采取合理竞争方式是释放消费潜力的未来改革路径。

Under the promotion championship,local government competition,as a deep institutional feature behind the imbalance of government public goods supply,has both direct and indirect impact on government consumption and household consumption.From the perspective of public goods supply,this paper constructs a theoretical framework of local government competition and consumption,combines local government competition methods and generational overlap models for theoretical analysis,and further uses 1993-2018 Chinese provincial panel data for empirical testing.The research results show that:local government competition has a negative impact on government consumption;investment-biased competition has a negative impact on household consumption,livelihood-biased competition has a positive impact on household consumption;the supply of productive public goods has a negative indirect effect on government consumption and household consumption.In light of this,gradually improving the evaluation mechanism and fiscal restraint mechanism of government officials,and adopting a reasonable competition method are the future reform paths to unleash consumption potential.