【作者】 李晓佳；

【机构】 香港中文大学经济系；

【摘要】 地方政区结构对地区经济发展和社会效率影响甚大。目前对地(市)管县体制的质疑虽多,但却缺乏严格的理论分析。本文在利维坦自利政府的假设下,通过构建两地区、两级政府的 Stackelberg 模型,刻画了在县自治和地(市)管县两种不同体制下,相关政府和地方居民的行为特点,并比较了各自的经济表现和福利绩效。研究发现,在中国地方分割的现实制度状况下,地(市)管县体制确实可能优于县自治体制,但需要满足一定的技术函数条件,而且相邻县的地理或偏好距离必须保持在特定临界值以内。由于从社会福利效率角度要求的条件比地区产出和财政租金所要求的条件更加严格,因此自利政府会将地(市)管县体制推行到无效率的边界上,反映了自利政府与社会效率的矛盾。更多还原

【Abstract】 The local government regime casts large impact on economic growth and social welfare.With the Leviathan assumption,this paper constructs a Stackelberg model of two regions and two government tiers,outlines economic behaviors of concerning governments and residents under the county autonomy regime and prefecture-county regime,and then compares their economic output and social efficiency.It is found that,in case of interregional division,the prefecture-county regime dominates county autonomy regime when the technology function satisfies certain requirements and the distance(geographic or ideological)between counties is smaller than certain values.Since such conditions are stricter for social efficiency than for local output and fiscal rents,Leviathan government would carry out the prefecture-county regime to an inefficiently large area,which indicates the traditionally argued conflict between self-intersected government and social welfare.更多还原