| 程垦,陈勇兵.山海情：对口支援与企业跨地区经营[J].数量经济技术经济研究,2026,(3):180-203 | | 山海情：对口支援与企业跨地区经营 | | Mining Town: Regional Poverty Alleviation Partnership and Firm’s Cross-regional Operation | | | | DOI： | | 中文关键词: 对口支援 企业跨地区经营 政府搭台 企业唱戏 区域协调发展 | | 英文关键词: Regional Poverty Alleviation Partnership Firm’s Cross-regional Operation Government Setting up the Stage Enterprise Putting in the Show Regional Coordinated Development | | 基金项目: | | | 中文摘要: | | 对口支援是中国特色区域协调发展的重要举措。本文以1994年以来逐步推行的对口支援政策为切入点，采用交错型双重差分方法考察对口支援对企业跨地区经营的影响及其作用机制。结果发现，对口支援显著促进了支援省份的企业在受援地进行跨地区经营。经过一系列稳健性检验后，上述结果依然成立。机制分析表明，对口支援主要通过“政府搭台、企业唱戏”的方式促进企业跨地区经营。“政府搭台”体现了有为政府破除市场失灵带来的企业跨地区经营障碍，通过降低信息不对称、国企“率先投资”效应以及金融财税优惠政策促进企业跨地区经营。“企业唱戏”则体现了有效市场的积极作用，显著促进非国有企业的跨地区经营，并且会促进与受援地区比较优势产业相契合的企业的跨地区经营，进而通过集聚效应自我强化，形成可持续的区域协调发展路径。本文为科学优化区域互助机制，实现区域间经济协调发展提供了有益的政策启示。 | | 英文摘要: | | The regional poverty alleviation partnership (RPAP) is an essential strategy for reducing regional inequalities. This study utilizes firm registration data obtained from the State Administration for Industry and Commerce and employs the staggered difference-in-differences method to examine how the RPAP, which pairs supporting provinces with recipient cities and has been progressively implemented since 1994, affects enterprises’ cross-regional operation. We find that the partnership promotes firms’ cross-regional operation, and the results are robust after a series of tests.Further analysis reveals that the government setting up the stage and enterprises putting on the show are the main mechanisms. “Government setting up the stage” plays a guiding role where an effective government addresses market failures and is reflected in three ways—reducing information asymmetry through official and entrepreneurial exchanges, the demonstration effect of state-owned enterprises’ “pioneering investments,” and offering financial and tax incentives that lower operational costs.“Enterprises putting on the show” embodies the decisive role of market mechanisms in resource allocation and is evidenced by the policy’s significant promotion of cross-regional expansion among non-state-owned enterprises and firms in industries aligned with the recipient regions’ comparative advantages. This further generates agglomeration effects that sustain cross-regional business growth. The Partnership also induces industrial division between supporting provinces and recipient cities; for example, the effects are pronounced for agricultural and manufacturing industries.Our study contributes to the literature in the following two aspects. First, this study scientifically evaluates the economic impacts of China’s RPAP—a mega regional coordination development strategy—from the perspective of firm cross-regional operations, thereby expanding research on the economic effects of RPAP. Most existing literature on RPAP qualitatively discusses its development from a poverty reduction perspective, and the limited quantitative studies primarily explore its impact on the economic development of recipient regions, failing to deeply reveal how firms adjust their cross-regional operations under policy impetus. However, the internal information flows, service flows, capital flows, as well as personnel mobility resulting from firms’ cross-regional operational behaviors, are of significant practical importance for optimizing the spatial allocation of resources, achieving rational industrial division and collaboration, helping realize the objectives of the paired assistance policy arrangement, and promoting regional coordinated development. Therefore, this study constructs comprehensive indicators of a firm’s cross-regional operation to examine the impact of the RPAP, providing policy references for understanding its economic impacts and institutional optimization paths.Second, RPAP is an institutional arrangement with Chinese characteristics and an important policy tool for coordinating central-local relations and reshaping inter-government interactions. This study innovatively explores the mechanisms influencing firm cross-regional operations from the formal institutional perspective of inter-government coordination within the context of a large transitioning developing country. While existing literature has extensively investigated the causes and economic impacts of domestic market fragmentation, research specifically discussing how to break domestic market segmentation and promote firm cross-regional operations is quite limited. As an embedded institutional innovation, the RPAP follows the practical logic of “government setting up the stage, enterprises putting on the show.” Here, “government setting up the stage” involves strategic intervention and institutional supply by an effective government to address market failures, thereby significantly reducing information barriers, institutional costs, and policy uncertainties faced by firms in cross-regional operations. “Enterprises putting on the show” ensures the effective exertion of the decisive role of market mechanisms in resource allocation, ultimately helping firms achieve geographical expansion. This study not only enriches the research dimension of how intergovernmental coordination influences firm behavior but also provides micro-level empirical evidence on how “institutional synergy can activate market forces” in the context of regional coordinated development. | | 查看全文 相关附件： 下载数据代码附录 |
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