中国研究机构的改制效果评价研究

 基于1998-2005年中国部分研究所的均衡面板数据，本文对始于1999年的中国政府对研究所改制的政策效果进行了评价研究。文中创新性地采用了IVE、PSA、分位数等多种计量方法估计改制对研究所绩效的影响，以达到控制潜在的内生性和选择性偏误的目的。研究发现，改制达到了预期的基本目标，与没有改制的研究所进行比较，改制为科技型企业和非盈利的研究型研究所（NPR）的产出效率明显提高。具体来说，改制增强了科技型企业的商业化导向，增加了总收入；NPR的科技收入得到大幅提升，政府资助也得到了加强，有利于其开展基础研究。

Evaluation of Restructuring Effect on China' s Research Institutes

This paper evaluates the restructuring effects of research institutes implemented by Chinese government began in 1999,based on a balanced sample of these institutes,both converted and unconverted,spanning 1998-2005.In order to control for potential endogeneity and selection bias,the paper employs various econometric methods to evaluate the impact of the restructuring program on the performance of these institutes.We find that the restructuring program appears to have achieved its fundamental goals,that is,it increased the productivity of the S&T enterprises and the non-profit research institutes relative to the non-converted enterprises.In particular,the conversion programs led to more of a commercial orientation and a relative increase in total revenue for the S&T enterprises;for the non-profit research institutes,conversion led to a very substantial increase in S&T revenue as well as an increase in government grants to facilitate an apparent shift toward basic research.