Since the policy design for carbon emission reduction must consider both the efficiency and
the cost of emission reduction, improvement in carbon total factor productivity (CTFP) is …

What role do local officials' incentives play in regional economic growth? How do local
officials behave under promotion pressure? This paper studies the unintended impact of …

This paper studies how China's recent anti-corruption campaign affects poverty incidence.
Employing five waves of the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) data, we find the (potential) …

Input-Output (IO) data describing supply-demand relationships between buyers and sellers
for goods and services within an economy have been used not only in economics but also in …

We try to expand the political promotion tournaments in Chinese local governments from
raising GDP to the level of increasing fiscal revenues. From the vantage point of officials' …

The literature connecting economic freedom indexes to income levels and growth generally
points in the direction of a positive association. In this paper, we argue that this finding is a …

This paper investigates the unexpected positive effect of the government-firm relationship on
environmental governance in the context of the reform of official performance appraisal …

Many governments have been reported to systematically manipulate official statistics.
However, scholarly research has not extensively dealt with the determinants of data …

Economic indicators are important tools used to assess the economic situation of a country
or region and for macroeconomic control, and the decline in the accuracy of economic …

This study builds a theoretical framework on how subnational governments use promotion
schemes to motivate local bureaucrats to address conflicting tasks of economic development …