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The Evolution of Chinese Policies and Governance Structures on Environment, Energy and Climate
Tsang, Stephen; Kolk, Ans - 2010
Although a successor to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol has not materialised yet, the 2009 Copenhagen meeting underlined the importance of China in international debates on climate and energy. This is not only based on China’s current climate emissions, but also on its expected energy use and economic...
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Launch of Local Government Bonds in China
Sekine, Eiichi - 2009
In November 2008, China announced a RMB4trn package of economic stimulus measures that also dealt with how it would be funded. As a result, in March 2009, the National People's Congress (China's parliament), with the approval of the central government, authorized the Ministry of Finance to issue...
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Salvaging the EU : two-speed or dual-track reform?
Rosefielde, Steven - In: Contemporary economics 13 (2019) 2, pp. 137-146
In the most recent decade, the European Union has shown itself to be less robust than globalists imagined. Globalists believed that supranationality was weatherproof – that it would always outperform national alternatives and would survive adversity. Economic stagnation and Brexit belied these...
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The Determinants of Vertical Integration in Export Processing : Theory and Evidence from China
Research, Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial - 2022
direct investment (FDI) versus foreign outsourcing. We exploit the coexistence of two regulatory trade regimes for export … firm, we find little support for the existing theories on FDI and outsourcing that focus on contract incompleteness and the …
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The Determinants of Vertical Integration in Export Processing : Theory and Evidence from China
Fernandes, Ana - 2010
outsourcing in export processing trade. We exploit the coexistence of two regulatory export processing regimes in China, which …
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Realising regional potentials through better market integration in China
Molnár, Margit - 2019
China’s regions have been experiencing impressive growth over the past decades, but their potentials could be better exploited by creating a single product and labour market. Local protectionism increases transaction costs and hinders competition, thereby taking a toll on productivity....
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Decentralizing Legislation in China’s Law on Legislation Amendment
Cui, Wei - 2019
We present a novel account of China's recent move to decentralize legislation through amending the Law on Legislation (LL). Conventional wisdom pervading both Chinese political discourse and social scientific scholarship on China portrays law as incompatible with experimentation and as only...
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The Impact of Fiscal Decentralization on Urban Agglomeration : Evidence from China
Wu, Alfred M. - 2018
economics models do not fully capture the impact of political institutions, particularly fiscal decentralization, on urban size … decentralization, in conjunction with political control, portends a more complex environment for urban agglomeration and offers a new … wherein fiscal decentralization is negatively associated with urban agglomeration. Such phenomena can be attributed to the …
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Decentralised Governance and Empowerment of County Governments in China : Betting on the Weak or the Strong?
Fan, Yong - 2020
on less developed counties than on developed ones, which suggests a positive outcome of this decentralization policy in …
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Regional Decentralization and Fiscal Incentives : Federalism, Chinese Style
Jin, Hehui; Qian, Yingyi; Weingast, Barry R. - 2007
even when we control for the conventional measure of fiscal decentralization. Finally, we compare federalism, Chinese style …
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