This paper analyses the impact of political competition on economic performance in Indonesia. This study uses a database covering 427 districts in Indonesia, from 2000 to 2013. Political competition is measured using the Herfindahl Hirschman Concentration Index for the district parliament election. This variable is potentially endogenous, because political competition is likely to be non-random and correlated with unobservable variables. To solve this problem, I use the lag of the average political competition within the same province as the instrumental variable for political competition. The degree of political competition boosts real Regional Gross Domestic Product (RGDP) per capita and RGDP growth by 0.7 and 0.6%, respectively. This study also finds that stiffer political competition is associated with lower own source revenue, higher non agricultural RGDP share, and higher Human Development Index (HDI).

本文分析了政治竞争对印度尼西亚经济表现的影响。本研究使用的数据库涵盖了 2000 年至 2013 年期间印度尼西亚的 427 个地区。政治竞争是使用地区议会选举的赫芬达尔·赫希曼集中指数来衡量的。这个变量可能是内生的，因为政治竞争可能是非随机的并且与不可观察的变量相关。为了解决这个问题，我用同省平均政治竞争的滞后作为政治竞争的工具变量。政治竞争程度分别推动实际地区人均国内生产总值 (RGDP) 和 RGDP 增长 0.7% 和 0.6%。本研究还发现，更激烈的政治竞争与较低的自有来源收入有关，