Special Deals with Chinese Characteristics

50 Pages Posted: 21 May 2019

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Chang-Tai Hsieh

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business; University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Chong-En Bai

Tsinghua University - School of Economics & Management

Zheng (Michael) Song

City University of Hong Kong (CityU)

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Date Written: May 2019

Abstract

Chinese local governments wield their enormous political power and administrative capacity to provide “special deals” for favored private firms. We argue that China’s extraordinary economic growth comes from these special deals. Local political leaders do so because they derive personal benefits, either political or monetary, from providing special deals. Competition between local governments limits the predatory effects of special deals.

JEL Classification: E02, F00, N00, P0

Suggested Citation

Hsieh, Chang-Tai and Bai, Chong-En and Song, Zheng (Michael), Special Deals with Chinese Characteristics (May 2019). University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper No. 2019-74, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3391506 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3391506

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Chong-En Bai

Tsinghua University - School of Economics & Management ( email )

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Zheng (Michael) Song

City University of Hong Kong (CityU) ( email )

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Kowloon
Hong Kong

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