FAR regulation across Chinese cities, and additional evidence suggests that stringency depends on certain city …

from a large sample of Spanish cities for the 2003-2007 political term and employ a regression discontinuity design to … document that cities controlled by left-wing parties convert much less land from rural to urban uses than is the case in … similar cities controlled by the right. The differences between governments on the two sides of the political spectrum are …

from a large sample of Spanish cities for the 2003-2007 political term and employ a regression discontinuity design to … document that cities controlled by left-wing parties convert much less land from rural to urban uses than is the case in … similar cities controlled by the right. The differences between governments on the two sides of the political spectrum are …

Most cities enjoy some autonomy over how they tax their residents, and that autonomy is typically exercised by multiple …-OECD countries. We show that most cities are highly fragmented: urban areas with more than 500,000 inhabitants are divided into 74 … local jurisdictions on average. The vast majority of these cities are characterized by a central municipality that strongly …