a fraction of the transfer. The government faces a trade-off in its delegation decision: bureaucrats have knowledge of …-based regulation policy requires the government to make use of a bureaucracy; this has a bureaucratic cost, as the bureaucracy diverts … incentives to delegate. Furthermore, we discuss how partial delegation, i.e., delegation followed by laws and regulations that …

This paper addresses the question of how bureaucratic incentives affect economic performance in China at the provincial …

elite are motivated to promote economic development in China. It argues that like politicians in other types of political …Rapid economic development in China in the post-1978 era has been considered 'intriguing' and 'puzzling' since it … role of the political elite in economic progress. This paper contributes to this literature by studying why the political …