Financial Development,Opening-up and Urban-rural Income Gap:Empirical Analysis Based on the Panel Data from 1978 to 2008
利用1978-2008年省级面板数据，实证分析金融发展和对外开放对中国城乡收入差距的长期影响和短期波动效应，发现两者均显著扩大差距，且金融发展作用更大，对外开放有中介效应。
With the provincial panel data from 1978 to 2008,this paper makes an empirical analysis on the long-run relationship and the short-run volatility's influence among financial development,opening-up and urban -rural income gap in China.The results show that financial development and opening-up broaden urban-rural income gap significantly in the long-term,and financial development's effect is larger than opening-up's,and opening -up has significant mediating effect that financial development broadens urban-rural income gap further with opening-up's promotion.Financial development broadens urban-rural income gap and opening-up has litde effect on urban-rural income gap in east China;it's similar to the situation of whole country,but opening-up has larger effect in west China and central China.At last,this paper provides the explanation and some suggestions.