区域经济发展差距的历史起源.pdf

区域经济发展差距的历史起源：以江浙两省为例 The Historical Origins of Regional Economic Disparity: An Empirical Investigation on Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces 刘明兴 张冬 章奇 Mingxing Liu, Associate professor, China Institute for Educational Finance Research, Peking University Dong Zhang, Department of Political Science, Northwestern University Luke Qi Zhang, Associate professor, School of Economics, Fudan University 作者简介：刘明兴，北京大学中国教育财政科学研究所，教授；张冬，美国西北大学政治学 系，博士研究生；章奇，复旦大学经济学院，副教授。  作者感谢国家自然科学基金对本项研究的资助。 1 区域经济发展差距的历史起源：以江浙两省为例 摘要：本文试图从非正式政治权力结构的角度为中国区域经济增长差异问题提供一个新的解 释思路。各地区解放前不同的革命传统塑造了地方政权内部的非正式政治权力结构，而非正 式权力结构进一步影响了地方干部的行为动机，这导致了上世纪 80 年代前各地区在经济政 策取向上的差异，最终影响了各地区的长期经济发展绩效。本文的实证研究发现，江浙两省 内部的县域经济差距显著地受到了革命传统以及解放后地方非正式权力结构的影响。由于省 级政治精英来源结构及其与地方干部非正式政治关系的差异，解放前浙江省地方革命力量强 的地区经济增长相对较快，而江苏省此类地区的经济增长则相对较慢。 关键词： 非正式权力结构 经济增长 地区差距 制度 The Historical Origins of Regional Economic Disparity: An Empirical Investigation on Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces Abstract: This paper offers a novel perspective on regional disparity of economic growth in China. The substantial variation in long-run economic performance among counties in Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces can be explained by local economic policies before the economic reform in 1980s, which in turn can be traced to informal power structure shaped by communist revolution. Due to the difference in the elite structure at provincial level and informal political relationship between provincial elites and local elites, as for Zhejiang province, the counties where local forces were historically strong prior to 1949 had better long-term economic performance after 1949, whereas such kind of counties had worse performance in Jiangsu province. Keywords: Informal