The Fiscal Impact of County-to-Urban District Conversion in China

IF 2.4 3区 社会学 Q2 URBAN STUDIES
Huiping Li, H. Guo, Pengju Zhang
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Abstract

Municipal annexation has been one of the most widely adopted instruments for urban growth in the United States. Scholars of public choice and regional studies have long debated the fiscal effect of local government annexation. Few studies, however, examine the fiscal effect of municipal administrative annexations in China, where prefectural cities have extensively annexed county-level governments through forcefully converting rural counties into urban districts in a top-down manner. Employing a difference-in-differences (DID) method coupled with an event study approach, we analyzed a panel data set of 282 prefectural cities from 2007 to 2015 to examine the fiscal impact of annexation in China. The findings show that prefectural cities have significantly increased their land conveyance fees through administrative annexation. Given that land conveyance fees serve as one of the most important own-source revenues at the local level, our findings shed light on the crucial link among the urbanization process, government reorganization, and local land finance in China and, potentially, in other transition countries.
中国县域转换对财政的影响
城市兼并是美国城市发展最广泛采用的手段之一。长期以来,公共选择和区域研究学者一直在争论地方政府兼并的财政效应。然而,很少有研究考察中国城市行政合并的财政效应,在中国,地级市通过自上而下的方式强行将农村县转变为市区,广泛兼并县级政府。本文采用差分法结合事件研究方法,对2007 - 2015年中国282个地级市的面板数据集进行了分析,以考察兼并对中国财政的影响。研究发现,地级市通过行政兼并大幅提高了土地出让金。鉴于土地出让金是地方层面最重要的自有收入来源之一,我们的研究结果揭示了中国乃至其他转型国家城市化进程、政府重组和地方土地财政之间的关键联系。
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Urban Affairs Review
Urban Affairs Review URBAN STUDIES-
CiteScore
5.50
自引率
14.30%
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48
期刊介绍: Urban Affairs Reveiw (UAR) is a leading scholarly journal on urban issues and themes. For almost five decades scholars, researchers, policymakers, planners, and administrators have turned to UAR for the latest international research and empirical analysis on the programs and policies that shape our cities. UAR covers: urban policy; urban economic development; residential and community development; governance and service delivery; comparative/international urban research; and social, spatial, and cultural dynamics.
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