Can administrative approval reform become an effective reform to improve the quality of economic development? Total factor productivity is the key measure of the quality of economic development. In this paper, we studied the influence of administrative approval reform on total factor...

This paper investigates how the government stabilizes economic growth from the perspective of government expenditure. We contribute a method to identify the government expenditure aimed at stabilizing growth and empirically examine it using a dataset of economic growth targets. We find that when...