This paper investigates the selective public goods provision behavior of China’s local government and its effects. Theoretic models of dominative local officials are constructed to understand public goods provision, which is compared with the residents’ as well as sectors’ demand for...

Previous studies on traffic congestion have emphasized supply-side instruments, such as the expansion of road capacity and improving the management of traffic. However, researchers on transportation have identified several paradoxes in which the usual remedy for congestion-expanding the road...