基于异质性地方政府激励锦标赛模型及政策意义

基于政治经济学框架,将地方政府异质性引入到由中央政府主导、地方政府参与的晋升锦标赛,拓展传统晋升博弈模型,对比分析了同质性和异质性竞争者情形下竞争参与者的行为水平,获得如下研究结论:首先,获胜者和失败者之间的报酬支付差距是一种强激励因素,竞争者异质性会影响到竞争者的努力投入水平;再次,竞争者异质性使得产出波动对劣势竞争者不再只是负面因素,反而给其带来了战胜优势竞争者的机会空间;最后,从竞争者异质性角度解释了中国经济增速"西强东弱"中的地方政府行为差异,得出一些对政府治理改革有益的启示.

Research about promotion tournament based on heterogeneity competitors and its policy implications

Based on the political economics framework, this paper introduced the heterogeneity of local governments into the promotion tournament which leading by central government, improved the traditional promotion game model, and comparatively analyzed the promotion tournament under the conditions of homogeneity and heterogeneity of competitors, this paper had these conclusions: first, remuneration gap between winners and losers was a strong incentive factor, competitors heterogeneity will affect the level of their efforts; second, the heterogeneity of competitors made the output fluctuation no longer always be a bad factor for disadvantage competitors, because the output fluctuation brought disadvantages competitors over advantage competitors opportunity space; third, this paper explained the behavior differences of local governments in the phenomenon of "west strong east weak" on China's economic growth and provided some beneficial implications for governments management reform.