›› 2020, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (10): 22-32.

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Competition of Local Governments, Land Finance and Total Factor Productivity ——Based on the Empirical Test of 276 Prefecture-level Cities in China

GUO Wenwei, Zhou Yuan   

  1. School of Finance, Guangdong University of Finance & Economics, Guangzhou 510320, China
  • Received:2020-02-25 Online:2020-10-10 Published:2020-10-14

地方政府竞争、土地财政与全要素生产率——基于全国276个地级市的实证检验

郭文伟, 周媛   

  1. 广东财经大学金融学院,广东 广州 510320
  • 作者简介:郭文伟(1979-),男,广东汕头人,广东财经大学金融学院教授,博士;周媛(1996-),女,浙江诸暨人,广东财经大学金融学院硕士生。
  • 基金资助:
    国家社会科学基金项目(19BJY244)

Abstract: Under the background of the Chinese fiscal decentralization system (vertical competition) and the promotion championship system (horizontal competition),the interaction between local government competition and land finance will have an important impact on the total factor productivity (TFP) of cities. The Fare-Primont index method is used to measure TFP and its decomposition index in each prefecture-level city, and various panel models are constructed to reveal the influence mechanism. The results are as follows: both the vertical competition and the horizontal competition of local governments will deepen the dependence of local governments on land finance; the land finance model led by local government competition has a significant inhibitory effect on TFP, which is mainly realized by inhibiting technological innovation, reducing economies of scale and the efficiency of resource allocation. In addition, the influence path of land finance on TFP has regional heterogeneity,and presents the relationship of “inverted U” from rise to fall; at present, the land finance of the whole country and eastern, central and western regions is on the right side of the inverted U shape, that is, the stage when land finance inhibits the TFP, which highlights the urgency of getting rid of the land finance model to improve the quality of the economic growth.

Key words: Land Finance, Competition of Local Government, Total Factor Productivity

摘要: 在中国式的财政分权体制(纵向竞争)和晋升锦标赛体制(横向竞争)双重背景下,地方政府竞争与土地财政的互动会对城市全要素生产率产生重要影响。本文使用Fare-Primont指数法测度我国276个地级市在2004~2017年的全要素生产率及其效率分解指标,并通过构建多种面板模型揭示其影响机制。研究结果表明:地方政府纵向竞争和地方政府横向竞争都将加深地方政府土地财政的依赖程度;在地方政府竞争主导下的土地财政模式对全要素生产率产生了显著的抑制作用,主要通过抑制技术创新、降低规模经济和资源配置效率三个途径来实现;此外,土地财政对全要素生产率的影响路径存在区域异质性,并呈现先升后降的倒U型关系;目前全国及东、中、西区域土地财政均处于倒U型的右侧,即土地财政对全要素生产率产生抑制作用的阶段,由此凸显出我国摆脱土地财政模式来提升经济增长质量的紧迫性。

关键词: 土地财政, 地方政府竞争, 全要素生产率

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