behavioral coordination game between local officials and private businessmen. With field facts in China, this study suggests that …

and by The Standardized World Income Inequality Database are seen to be correlated with economic diversification, the rule … of law, transparency as measured by the corruption perceptions index from Transparency International, trust as measured …

and by The Standardized World Income Inequality Database are seen to be correlated with economic diversification, the rule … of law, transparency as measured by the corruption perceptions index from Transparency International, trust as measured …

given to the re-emergence of the Asian giants, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and India. Both countries have attained …

Inequality between ethnic groups has been shown to be negatively related to GDP, but research on its effect on … harmonized Gini indices on ethnic inequality for countries and sub-national units between 1992 and 2013. Our approach exploits … that ethnic inequality is widespread across countries but has decreased over time. Exploiting the artificiality of sub …

constituency characteristics, we analyze how local vote inequality, determined by tax payments, affected policymaking during … conservative parliament, higher vote inequality is associated with more liberal voting, especially in regions with large … vote inequality was high. …

China. We demonstrate that drug advertising inspections are used by provincial governments to discriminate against firms …

This paper examines the progress of state-owned enterprise (SOE) reform in the People’s Republic of China. After … arrangement of state ownership has remained elusive. SOE reform is incomplete as long as a number of fundamental governance issues …