This article examines a particular type of central mandate in China, the mandate for nationwide across-the-board salary …

decentralization in China, particularly in the recent years. More effective coordination is called upon to mitigate the unintended … outcome of fiscal decentralization without proper control in shaping urban hierarchy in China and the findings provide lessons … economics models do not fully capture the impact of political institutions, particularly fiscal decentralization, on urban size …

This study is the first attempt to examine the determinants of expenditure decentralization at sub-provincial levels in … China. The Chinese central government gives detailed guidelines to local governments on public finance, but, ironically …, their expenditure assignment is far from being well-regulated. Differences in fiscal decentralization on the expenditure …

China’s regions have been experiencing impressive growth over the past decades, but their potentials could be better … at making up for the slow progress over the past decade or so. There are signs that these efforts are helping China … Paper relates to the 2019 OECD Economic Survey of China (http://www.oecd.org/economy/china-economic-snapshot/). …

economies. Using a panel data set from China, we investigate the relationship between provincial government's fiscal incentives … even when we control for the conventional measure of fiscal decentralization. Finally, we compare federalism, Chinese style …

economic growth under fiscal decentralization policy in the context of China’s experience, using panel data for 28 provinces … that fiscal decentralization could improve regional growth in China. Finally, this paper finds that the use of extra … over the period 1987–2010. In the recent past, the structure of decentralized government in China has undergone two …

-specific public goods out of two complementary district-specific inputs. We compare equilibria in non-cooperative decentralization and … centralization welfare-dominates decentralization in most institutional settings and for a wide range of parameters, yet we can also … identify necessary and sufficient conditions for decentralization to welfare-dominate centralization. The setup features three …