An Analysis of the Impact of Market Competition on the Level of Financial Support for Rural Households ——An Empirical Research Based on Provincial Panel Data
TAN Yan-zhi, YANG Yun
Business School, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan 411105, China
Abstract:
In rural financial sector in our country, mainstream view has been supported to establish diversified financial organizations as well as to create competitive environment. And China’s rural finance top-level design is also market-oriented mode. This paper builds dynamic panel model, using the system GMM method to analyze the 2006-2011 national rural commercial bank provincial panel data and finds out that there is a non-linear relationship between the competition among rural financial institutions and the level of financial support for rural households, and it also reveals the current competition has been or will be detrimental to the latter, which indicates that China's rural finance top-level design might be disputed. Empirical research also shows a useful way to improve the level of support for agriculture that is improving the institutional efficiency in rural finance.
TAN Yan-zhi, YANG Yun.An Analysis of the Impact of Market Competition on the Level of Financial Support for Rural Households ——An Empirical Research Based on Provincial Panel Data[J] Economic Survey, 2016,V33(3): 25-30