潮起潮落:纵向行政分权改革与经济增长  

The Ebb and Flow of a Tide:Vertical Administrative Decentralization Reform and on Economic Growth

作　　者：董雪兵[1] 董文博 Dong Xuebing;Dong Wenbo(Research Center for Regional Coordination Development,China Academy of West Region Development,Zhejiang University,Hangzhou 310058,P.R.China;School of Economics,Zhejiang University,Hangzhou 310058,P.R.China)

机构地区：[1]浙江大学中国西部发展研究院、浙江大学区域协调发展研究中心,杭州310058 [2]浙江大学经济学院,杭州310058

出　　处：《山东大学学报（哲学社会科学版）》2023年第5期122-134,共13页Journal of Shandong University(Philosophy and Social Sciences)

基　　金：国家社科基金一般项目“基于贸易限制指数的我国虚拟水贸易利益评价及政策优化研究”(18BJY186)。

摘　　要：以“扩权强县”为代表的省级以下行政分权改革能否促进经济增长?改革政策为何最终终止?以“扩权强县”作为准自然实验,基于县域和工业企业数据研究行政分权改革的经济增长效应的结果发现:(1)纵向行政分权能够显著促进县域经济增长。(2)行政分权改革促使试点县(市)增加生产性支出、扩大招商引资、增加外资使用、扩大出口,进而促进经济增长。试点县间的横向竞争也是促进经济增长的渠道。(3)由于地级市政府存在博弈行为,改革加剧了试点县财权与事权的失衡;非生产领域支出比重减少,存在“重增长、轻民生”的问题;资源配置效率也并未得到优化,以上可能是改革最终停止的原因。在高质量发展阶段,政府应始终将发挥市场资源基础配置作用作为放权赋能改革的最终落脚点,同时在政策推广时要充分考虑改革试点的客观条件。The theory of decentralization,originated in Western federal countries,primarily focuses on the fiscal power distribution between the central and local governments,and the provisioning of public goods.This theory has offered crucial guidance for China’s economic system reform.What is unique about the theory of decentralization is that Chinese decentralization extends beyond the financial realm to encapsulate administrative decentralization.From 2000 to 2009,a nationwide implementation of administrative decentralization reform was undertaken,epitomized by“County Power Expansion(CPE)”.This reform is instigated by provincial governments,which devolves the social and economic management power of prefecture-level governments to county-level governments,directly altering the vertical power structure among governments.However,starting from 2009,this reform experienced a gradual slowdown before ultimately coming to a complete suspension,a situation which remains without consensus in the academic community.Therefore,this study employs the“County Power Expansion”reform as a quasi-natural experiment.It investigates the economic growth effects of administrative decentralization reform based on data from county-level regions and industrial enterprises and discusses the reasons for the cessation of the reform policy.The results indicate that administrative decentralization reform significantly promotes economic growth at the county level.Following the reform,both the per capita GDP and the real GDP of the pilot counties significantly exceed those of the control group.The“County Power Expansion”reform,centered on economic growth,has led pilot counties to boost basic infrastructure and fiscal expenditures,utilizing their superior economic and social management privileges to expand investment promotion and attracting more industrial enterprises to their jurisdictions.Simultaneously,pilot counties have increased the utilization of foreign capital and they have amplified the scale of exports.Furthermore,the reform has

关 键 词：行政分权 为增长而竞争 经济增长 改革终止 

分 类 号：D630[政治法律—政治学] F124.1[政治法律—中外政治制度]