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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 …
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This study tries to determine to what extent the Chinese bureaucracy is merit-based. By triangulating quantitative and qualitative survey data from a sample of Chinese cadres (n=286), the authors aim to answer the research question: “What is the behavioural impact of the incentive structure...
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It is difficult to test the prediction that future career prospects create implicit effort incentives because …
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It is difficult to test the prediction that future career prospects create implicit effort incentives because …
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