Determinants of urban land supply in the people's republic of China : how do political factors matter?

• Main Authors: Hsu, Wen-Tai, Li, Xiaolu, Tang, Yang, Wu, Jing
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Institution; Land Supply; DRNTU::Social sciences::Economic development
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/88415; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/45803
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper explores whether and how corruption and competition-for-promotion motives affect urban land supply in the People's Republic of China. Conditional on demand-side factors, we find that corruption is highly correlated with an increase in land supply. The corruption effects are strongest...