, likely the engine for innovation in the coming years in China, are especially financially constrained, due perhaps to the …-the-big-and-letting-go-the-small' privatization program in China. Our empirical results suggest that government connections play an important role in explaining … Chinese firms' financing conditions, and provide further evidence on the nature of the misallocation of credit by China …

in explaining the enormous but puzzling county-level variations in development performance in Fujian province of China … efficiency in non-democratic countries, and that local accountability is a key ingredient for balanced development …