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1. The Fiscal Impact of Municipal Administrative Center Relocation

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Maio 2023
   Min Su, Can Chen, and Cathy Yang Liu

   The relocation of administrative centers is an important policy instrument in China, empowering cities to promote urban economic growth, strengthen public finance, and improve public service...

2. Fiscal Self-Sufficiency, Debt Limits, and Fiscal Sustainability in China’s Emerging Municipal Bond Market

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Junho 2022
   Yu Shi , Qing Li , and Robert Bland

   China’s municipal bond market suffers from a tension between centralized policymaking by the national government and the decentralized implementation of those policies by subnational...

3. Urban Development and Land Policy Reform in China

   Learning from Lincoln Institute-Funded Working Papers
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Fevereiro 2024
   Ayden Chi

   Since China’s economic liberalization reforms took off in 1978, various urban and land policy issues have emerged on the local and national levels. This paper briefly examines issues around...

4. China's Policy to Limit Use of Public-Private Partnerships by Municipalities to Finance Capital Improvements

   A Regression Discontinuity Design Analysis of the Fiscal Impact
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Junho 2023
   Robert Bland, Jingran Sun, and Yu Shi

   China’s rapid urbanization in the past four decades combined with the national government’s ambitious goals for economic growth have pressured public officials in prefectural cities to...

5. Plus ça Change

   Three Decades of Fiscal Policy and Central-Local Relations in China
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Junho 2021
   Christine Wong

   In China’s decentralised fiscal system, since virtually all vital public services (education, healthcare, social welfare) are provided by local governments, a well-functioning intergovernmental...

6. Nationwide Mass Appraisal Modeling in China

   Feasibility Analysis for Scalability Given Ad Valorem Property Tax Reform
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Abril 2019
   Peadar Davis, Michael McCord, Paul Bidanset, and Margie Cusack

   Since 2003, the Chinese government has considered introducing an annual property tax, and while it selected six pilot cities for experimenting with the viability of a mass appraisal system rollout,...

7. Land Conversion and Misallocation Across Cities in China

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Junho 2019
   Shihe Fu, Xiaocong Xu, and Junfu Zhang

   The Chinese government has been using quotas to control the amount of farmland that can be converted for urban uses in different cities every year. Using a sample of more than 1.5 million land-lease...

8. Transition to the Property Tax in China

   A Dynamic General Equilibrium Analysis
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Maio 2017
   David Dale-Johnson and Guozhong Zhu

   We use the dynamic general equilibrium approach to examine the potential impacts of the introduction of alternative tax regimes in China. This approach models housing demand and supply based on the...

9. Recently posted working papers

   Posts do Blog
   Janeiro 2008

10. The Debt Magnitude and Insolvency Risk of Local Financing Platforms in China

    Documentos de Trabalho
    Junho 2013
    Yang He and Joyce Yanyun Man

    Policy makers and researchers have been debating the financial health of Chinese local government debt after the global financial crisis. However, the lack of transparency makes it difficult to full...