fragmentation and the spatial size of cities in a sample of 180 metropolitan areas in the contexts of the US and Europe in the … administrative fragmentation impacts positively on land uptake in both the United States and Europe, although to different extents. …

; Industrial Policy ; Financial Institutions ; Government Decentralization ; China …China has shifted control over resources and decision making to local governments and enterprises as the result of the … background, this paper discusses a variety of tactics that China's central government has been using to incentivize local …

In this study we explore in detail the causes of corruption in China using two different sets of data at the regional …, fiscal decentralization is discovered to depress corruption significantly, while administrative decentralization fosters … in China that is mainly driven by the transition to a market economy. -- Corruption ; China ; Government …