Balancing Act: Economic Incentives, Administrative Restrictions, And Urban Land Expansion In China
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.149669
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- Feng, Juan & Lichtenberg, Erik & Ding, Chengri, 2015. "Balancing act: Economic incentives, administrative restrictions, and urban land expansion in China," China Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 36(C), pages 184-197.
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Keywords
Community/Rural/Urban Development; International Development; Land Economics/Use; Public Economics;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H77 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - Intergovernmental Relations; Federalism
- P35 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions - - - Public Finance
- O18 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
- Q15 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Land Ownership and Tenure; Land Reform; Land Use; Irrigation; Agriculture and Environment
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEV-2013-06-24 (Development)
- NEP-LAW-2013-06-24 (Law and Economics)
- NEP-TRA-2013-06-24 (Transition Economics)
- NEP-URE-2013-06-24 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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