Using the turnover of politicians in charge of nationwide IPO approval and the resulting “birthplace shock” during the approval process for IPO applicant firms in China, we identify the causal effect of politicians’ hometown favoritism on capital resource allocation. Hometown firms are on...

Land-use conflicts arise if land is scarce, land-use types are mutually exclusive, and vary in their effects with regard to more than one incongruent policy objective. If these effects depend on the spatial location of the land-use measures the conflict can be mediated through an appropriate...

Land-use conflicts arise if land is scarce, land-use types are mutually exclusive, and vary in their effects with regard to more than one incongruent policy objective. If these effects depend on the spatial location of the land-use measures the conflict can be mediated through an appropriate...