-liberalization quota allocation is not based on firm productivity. Removing this misallocation accounts for a substantial share of the … overall productivity gains associated with the quota removal. …

It has been widely observed that China is under-urbanized. The central government has tried to use various policies to … promote urbanization. In this paper, we evaluate one of these policies – count-to-city upgrading. Under China’s hierarchical … governance structure, a city status can only be determined and awarded by the central government. In the 1980s and 1990s, China …

,000 large and medium industrial firms operating in China during 1995. The results show that government decentralization …This study offers empirical evidence about how the structure of government and private ownership affects productivity … in Chinese firms. It uses the microdata of China’s most recent decennial industrial census, covering all of the 23 …