This paper analyzes the distortionary effect of political career incentives on fiscal extraction. We argue that … competitive promotion tournaments distort public officials' career incentives, leading to excessive tax extraction efforts. We … empirically estimate the magnitude of distortion by exploiting two institutional designs for political selection in China: the age …

This paper addresses the question of how bureaucratic incentives affect economic performance in China at the provincial … level. This paper develops a novel model to measure promotion incentives of the Chinese provincial standing committee … incentives of the rank-and-file standing committee members, not from those of the supreme leaders of the province, such as the …

that their career incentives — the institutional foundations of China's three decades of sustained economic growth — remain …We analyze a dataset constructed on the political turnovers of 3,623 county leaders in China during 1999-2008, and find …