河北大学学报(哲学社会科学版) ›› 2019, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (6): 80-92.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1005-6378.2019.06.010

• 经济学研究 • 上一篇    下一篇

中国地方政府债务对全要素生产率的影响——兼谈地方政府债务扩张的动力源:来自强者还是弱者

朱军1,寇方超2   

  1. 1.南京财经大学 财政与税务学院, 江苏 南京 210023;
    2.南京财经大学 公共财政研究中心, 江苏 南京 210023
  • 收稿日期:2019-07-25 出版日期:2019-11-25 发布日期:2019-11-25
  • 作者简介:朱军(1980—),男,江苏建湖人,南京财经大学财政与税务学院教授,主要研究方向:动态财政经济学、地方财政问题。
  • 基金资助:
    国家社会科学基金青年项目“地方举债融资的经济效应与风险预警机制研究”(15CJY077)

The Effects of Local Government Debt on Total Factor Productivity in China ——On the Driving Force of Local Government Debt Expansion: The Strong or the Weak

ZHU Jun1, KOU Fang-chao2   

  1. 1.School of Public Finance and Taxation, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023; 2.Center for Public Finance Research, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, China
  • Received:2019-07-25 Online:2019-11-25 Published:2019-11-25

摘要: 从全要素生产率的视角出发,沿用“索洛余量”规则选定投入变量,通过数据包络法(DEA)测算1998—2017年省级全要素生产率(TFP),进而采用完全修正的最小二乘法(FMOLS),分析了地方政府债务扩张对全要素生产率的影响。实证结果表明:虽然地方政府通过创新融资平台扩大举债会有缓解财政压力的短期效应,但长期债务扩张会对全要素生产率造成显著的负效应。那么,政府债务扩张的动力更多是来源于发展不平衡、不充分的中西部“弱者”,还是发展较好的东部“强者”?基于区域异质性的考虑,将样本作区域化处理,构建包含滞后期的动态面板模型,采用系统广义矩估计(SYS-GMM),实证研究了不同区域政府举债对整个政府债务扩张的“贡献”程度。实证结果表明:相较于东部与中部地区,中国的政府债务扩张对于西部地区的地方政府债务扩张更加敏感。

关键词: 全要素生产率, 地方政府债务扩张, 数据包络法, 系统广义矩估计

Abstract: From the perspective of total factor productivity, this paper uses the ‘Solo margin rule to select the input variables, and the data envelopment method(DEA)is used to calculate the provincial total factor productivity(TFP)from 1998 to 2017. Furthermore, using the fully modified least squares estimation(FMOLS)method, this paper analyzes the impacts of local government debt expansion on total factor productivity. The empirical results show that although local governments can generate short-term effects of easing financial pressure by innovating various financing platforms, long-term local government debt expansion will have a significant negative effect on total factor productivity. Then, the driving force for the expansion of government debt is more from the ‘weak’ or the uneven development of the central and western regions, or the ‘stronger’ of the better developed eastern countries? The samples are regionalized based on regional heterogeneity considerations. This paper constructs a dynamic panel model with lag period, and further uses the system generalized moment estimation(SYS-GMM)to empirically analyze the degree of “contribution” of local government debt to government debt expansion in different regions. The empirical results show that the government debt expansion in China is more sensitive to the government in the western region than in the eastern and central regions.

Key words: TFP, local government debt expansion, DEA, SYS-GMM

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