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Political hierarchy and urban primacy: Evidence from China
Shiyu Bo,Chao Cheng +1 more
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In this paper, the distributional effects of a centralisation reform of China's political hierarchy on regional urbanization were studied. But the authors focused on the distribution of urban primacy and a more marked core-periphery structure at the prefecture level.About:
This article is published in Journal of Comparative Economics.The article was published on 2021-05-14. It has received 10 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Urban primacy & Centralisation.read more
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Quantifying influences of administrative division adjustment on PM2.5 pollution in China's mega-urban agglomerations.
TL;DR: Using the geographical detector and evolution tree model, the authors quantifies the effects and mechanisms of ADA on the changes in PM2.5 concentration in three mega-urban agglomerations: Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH), Yangtze River Delta (YRD), and Pearl River delta (PRD) during 2000-2017.
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Quantifying influences of administrative division adjustment on PM2.5 pollution in China's mega-urban agglomerations
TL;DR: Using the geographical detector and evolution tree model, the authors quantifies the effects and mechanisms of ADA on the changes in PM2.5 concentration in three mega-urban agglomerations: Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH), Yangtze River Delta (YRD), and Pearl River delta (PRD) during 2000-2017.
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The Effects of City-County Mergers on Urban Energy Intensity: Empirical Evidence from Chinese Cities
TL;DR: Zhang et al. as discussed by the authors investigated whether the government-led expansion of urban space through city-county mergers can bring about a decline in urban energy intensity, and showed that the energy-saving effect of the policy only starts to become significant in the third year after implementation.
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The impacts of political hierarchy on corporate pollution emissions: Evidence from a spatial discontinuity in China.
Zhijiu Yang,Daqian Shi +1 more
TL;DR: Zhang et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the causal effect of political hierarchy on corporate SO2 emissions using a spatial regression discontinuity (RD) design and provided empirical evidence that enterprises of Chongqing have resource-receiving and external-financing advantages owing to its higher political status.
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The impacts of political hierarchy on corporate pollution emissions: Evidence from a spatial discontinuity in China
TL;DR: Zhang et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the causal effect of political hierarchy on corporate SO2 emissions using a spatial regression discontinuity (RD) design and provided empirical evidence that enterprises of Chongqing have resource-receiving and external-financing advantages owing to its higher political status.
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The Fundamental Institutions of China's Reforms and Development
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The Chinese Economy: Transitions and Growth
TL;DR: In this article, Naughton provides both an engaging, broadly focused introduction to China's economy since 1949 and original insights based on his own extensive research, which is suitable for classroom use for undergraduate or graduate courses.
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Hierarchies and Bureaucracies: On the Role of Collusion in Organizations
TL;DR: In this article, the analysis of hierarchical structures does not boil down to a compounding of the basic inefficiency, due to the fact that going from the simple two-tier principal/agent structure to more complex ones introduces the possibility of asymmetric information and insurance motives (or limited liability constraints).
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The Credibility Revolution in Empirical Economics: How Better Research Design is Taking the Con out of Econometrics
TL;DR: This article reviewed progress in empirical economics since Leamer's critique and pointed out that the credibility revolution in empirical work can be traced to the rise of a design-based approach that emphasizes the identification of causal effects.