1. Leader Networks and Interjurisdictional Contracting in Land Conversion Quotas.
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Chau, Nancy H., Qin, Yu, and Zhang, Weiwen
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CONTRACTS ,LAND use ,JURISDICTION - Abstract
Do network connections between government officials and administrative units facilitate efficient land use contracting across jurisdictions? This article leverages data from a groundbreaking policy in China where a strict quota-bound land use policy was replaced with an alternative, allowing between-county trade in land conversion quotas. We unpack the determinants of the boundary between trading and autarkic jurisdictions and unveil leader-related drivers of transaction costs between jurisdictions in a gravity-style estimation. We catalogue personal and career histories of county-level leaders and present evidence that leader networks derived from employment history are robustly trade-facilitating but nonworkplace links are not. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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