This paper investigates the effect of political hierarchy on regional economic growth from the perspective of officials' rank. Based on this phenomenon that higher-ranking local officials (HRO) serve in regions with lower administrative level, matching prefecture-level cities’ data and...

Purpose: This paper examines the impact and mechanism of China's digital inclusive finance on rural consumption upgrade. First, the impact of the development of digital inclusive finance on the upgrading of rural household consumption structure is to be theoretically analyzed and empirically...