Huang, Zhangkai; Liu, Jinyu; Ma, Guangrong; Xu, Lixin Colin - 2020
requirements in China. This paper finds that Chinese cities whose top officials were older than age 58 were 20 percent less likely … 1990s. Relying on the regression discontinuity design, the analysis finds that privatizations led to productivity gains of …-varying selectivity of privatizations and highlight the crucial role that state-owned enterprise privatizations played in China's economic …