Pro-growth inefficiency: Rents and moral hazard in infrastructure contests in China
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Keywords
Infrastructure investment; Rent seeking; Moral hazard; Bureaucratic politicized promotion; Corruption; China;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D73 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption
- O18 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
- H54 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Infrastructures
- P26 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist and Transition Economies - - - Property Rights
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