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China's Land Market Auctions : Evidence of Corruption
Cai, Hongbin - 2009
This paper studies the urban land market in China in 2003--2007. In China, all urban land is owned by the state. Leasehold use rights for land for (re)development are sold by city governments and are a key source of city revenue. Leasehold sales are viewed as a major venue for corruption,...
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Assessing Misallocation in Agriculture : Plots versus Farms
Aragon, Fernando M.; Restuccia, Diego; Rud, Juan Pablo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We assess the extent and cost of misallocation in agriculture in less-developed countries comparing the analysis at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938718
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Distortions, Producer Dynamics, and Aggregate Productivity : A General Equilibrium Analysis
Ayerst, Stephen; Brandt, Loren; Restuccia, Diego - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The expansion in farm size is an important contributor to agricultural productivity in developed countries, but the reallocation process is hindered in less developed economies. How do distortions to factor reallocation affect farm dynamics and agricultural productivity? We develop a model of...
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The Razor's Edge : Distortions and Incremental Reform in the People's Republic of China
Young, Alwyn - 2000
In a partially reformed economy, distortions beget distortions. Segments of the economy which are freed from centralized control respond to the rent seeking opportunities implicit in the remaining distortions of the economy. The battle to capture, and then protect, these rents leads to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470915
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Privatization in East European Transformation
Fischer, Stanley - 1991
Privatization of state assets is an essential step to the creation of a viable private sector in the formerly socialist … privatization, with emphasis on Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia. Progress in privatizing small firms has been rapid in several … East European countries, but privatization of large firms has been slow, with most success to date in Hungary …
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Insider Privatization and Careers - A Study of a Russian Firm in Transition
Friebel, Guido - 2007
We study how transition has affected human resource policies of a Russian heavy industry firm. Our data set contains personnel files of 1538 white-collar workers over 17 years: from 1984 to 2000. We find career paths before the first year of Gaidar's reforms, 1992, when Russian transition to a...
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Growth, Initial Conditions, Law and Speed of Privatization in Transition Countries : 11 Years Later
Godoy, Sergio - 2006
the market. In particular, we look at whether speed of privatization, legal institutions or initial conditions are more … endogeneity, confused issues of speed and level of privatization, and did not face up to the problems of multicollinearity. Our … results suggest that, contrary to the earlier literature, the speed of privatization is negatively associated with growth, but …
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The Land that Lean Manufacturing Forgot? Management Practices in Transition Countries
Bloom, Nicholas - 2011
We have conducted the first survey on management practices in transition countries. We found that Central Asian transition countries, such as Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, have on average very poor management practices. Their average scores are below emerging countries such as Brazil, China and...
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Land Reform and Productivity : A Quantitative Analysis with Micro Data
Adamopoulos, Tasso - 2019
redistributed farm lands. We study this reform in the context of an industry model of agriculture with a non-degenerate distribution …
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Property Rights, Land Misallocation and Agricultural Efficiency in China
Chari, A.V. - 2017
This paper examines the impact of a property rights reform in rural China that allowed farmers to lease out their land. We find the reform led to increases in land rental activity in rural households. Consistent with a model of transaction costs in land markets, our results indicate that the...
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