制度改善可能通过影响企业出口决策提升出口质量。将各地成立行政审批中心这一外生政策冲击作为准自然实验,考察制度改善对企业出口技术复杂度的影响;利用双重差分模型检验行政审批中心的设立对企业出口技术复杂度的影响,并将企业出口产品区分为退出产品、在位产品和新进入产品,进而依此对企业出口技术复杂度进行分解,考察制度改善影响企业出口技术复杂度的机制,研究发现:行政审批改革能促进企业出口技术复杂度提升,对小规模企业和一般贸易企业出口技术复杂度的提升作用更为显著;影响的机制在于,行政审批改革提高了企业决策的灵活度,促进企业调整在位产品的内部结构,通过降低产品多样性、增加高技术产品出口比例的方式,推动企业出口技术复杂度提升。
Administrative Approval System, Enterprise Products Decision And Export Technological Sophistication
Tao Tao,Fan KaiXin(Peking University)
Abstract Institutional improvement may improve export quality by affecting firms’ export decisions. Taking the exogenous policy shock from local administrative approval center as a quasi-natural experiment, this paper investigates the impact of institutional improvement on the complexity of enterprise export technology. This paper uses a DID model to test the impact of local administrative approval center on the export technology complexity at firm level. By distinguishing the export products into three categories, i. e., exit products, existing products and new products, this paper decomposes the export technological complexity into three parts accordingly, to study how institutional improvement can affect a firm’ s export behavior. It is found that local administrative approval reform promotes the export technology complexity, which has more significant impact on small-scale enterprises and general trading enterprises than larger ones and processing trade ones. The local administrative approval reform improves the agility of enterprise decision-making process, and promotes enterprise’ s ability to restructure its existing products to improve its export technology complexity.
Key words administrative approval system reform; products structure decision; export technological sophistication
■ 作者简介 陶 涛,经济学博士,北京大学经济学院教授、博士生导师;北京 100871;