This paper utilizes a countrywide, county-to-city upgrade 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 administrative remit to maximize gross domestic product and employment growth, there should be improvements in economic outcomes. The analysis finds that aggregate firm-level...
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2015/02/01
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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WPS7193
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2015/12/16
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Disclosed
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Empowering cities : good for growth ? evidence from China
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trade and competitiveness
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