政府规模和经济收敛

Government Size and Economy Convergence

本文通过建立一个不同地方政府(落后及发达地区的政府)和中央政府的增长模型来考察政府规模对一国区域经济收敛的影响，认为政府规模和人均产出的收敛速度呈倒U型的关系。针对中国的地区差距扩大的趋势，本文认为，造成这一不收敛现象的一个重要原因可能在于政府支出的低效率。文章还发展了一个新的计算收敛速度的方法。

Building a growth model with one central government and different local govern-ments, this paper examines the relationship between the government size and the economy conver-gence. The key finding is that the relationship is the inverted U. The underlying cause leading tothe divergence of Chinese growth is also surveyed . Finally the paper extends a new way to calcu-late the convergence speed.