Empowering Cities : Good for Growth? Evidence from the People's Republic of China
This paper utilizes a countrywide process of county-to-city upgrading in the 1990s to identify whether extending the powers of urban local governments leads to better firm outcomes. The paper hypothesizes that since local leaders in newly promoted cities have an incentive to utilize their new admini...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
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The MIT Press
2018
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29658 |