本文从出口参与和出口规模、出口进入与退出、出口质量和结构三个层次考察地方财政分权对企业出口行为的影响,并引入其与集聚经济的交互作用,讨论基层财政权力下放对集聚出口效应的影响。采用2000—2009年的制造业企业数据,应用二值选择模型、断尾回归和Heckman估计等方法进行研究,基本结论如下:地方财政分权程度的上升,显著提高了当地企业的出口参与和出口规模,动态地看,促进了新企业进入出口市场,减少了退出出口市场的概率;地方财政分权对于发挥集聚经济的"出口溢出"效应有积极作用,且在专业化集聚和多样化集聚中同样存在;地方财政分权程度的提高,不利于出口企业产品质量的提升,同时提高了企业出口上游度,使其更接近产业链上游。
This paper discusses the effect of fiscal decentralization on firms' exporting behavior--export propensity and export volume, entry and exit of exporting market, quality and structure of export. We introduce interaction term of fiscal decentralization index and agglomeration index into empirical models to explore the influence of fiscal decentralization on spillover effect. We test empirical model byusing Chinese manufacturing firm data, through methods of Probit, Truncreg and Heckman regression and find that: First, firms tend to export more with the increasing of fiscal decentralization level. Dynamically, higher decentralization level enhances new firms' entry probability into export market, at the same time, reduce the exit probability. This export promotion effect takes place through local government's policy of attracting foreign businesses and investment, setting up Special Economic Zones and offering subsidies. Second, fiscal decentralization strength the export spillover effect of agglomeration economies,which happens in both specialized agglomeration and diversified agglomeration.Third, export product quality decreases when fiscal decentralization level is higher, while upstream level increases with higher decentralization level.