中国地方政府数据开放与经济发展质量

Local Government Data Openness and the Quality of Economic Development in China

中国地方政府数据开放是否有助于提高经济发展质量?论文首次爬取了在2019年已经上线的76个地方政府数据开放平台上的开放数据数量和质量信息,并结合微观的上市公司数据和宏观的城市层面数据,通过宏微观结合的方式衡量经济发展质量,实证验证了地方政府数据开放有助于提高经济发展质量。论文采用PSM-DID回归、替换变量度量方式等方法进行了稳健性检验,结果一致。研究发现,地方政府数据开放主要通过降低信息不对称程度、减少企业的创新成本等机制,促进以全要素生产率为衡量标准的经济发展质量的提高。进一步分析发现,相对于非国有性质、低创新策略的企业,地方政府数据开放对国有性质、高创新策略的企业生产率的影响更强。这为地方政府持续提高数据开放水平提供了实证证据。

Does the opening-up of local government data in China help improve the quality of economic development?This study is the first to investigate the quantity and quality of available data sets by crawling 76 local government open data platforms in 2019.We combine micro listed company data and macro city-level data to measure the quality of economic development and empirically verify that the opening-up of local government data in China helps to improve the quality of economic development.The results are further confirmed with additional robustness checks using PSM-DID regressions and replacing variable measures.We conclude that the openness of local government data promotes the quality of economic development measured by total factor productivity.It is achieved mainly through mechanisms such as alleviating information asymmetry and reducing firms innovation costs.The study shows that when compared with firms with non-state-owned and low innovation strategies,local government data openness has a stronger impact on the productivity of firms with state-owned and high innovation stragies.It provides empirical evidence for local governments to improve the openness of data.