Leader Networks and Interjurisdictional Contracting in Land Conversion Quotas

Nancy Chau, Yu Qin and Weiwen Zhang

Land Economics, 2024, vol. 100, issue 3, 568-587

Abstract: Do network connections between government officials and administrative units facilitate efficient land use contracting across jurisdictions? This article leverages data from a groundbreaking policy in China where a strict quota-bound land use policy was replaced with an alternative, allowing between-county trade in land conversion quotas. We unpack the determinants of the boundary between trading and autarkic jurisdictions and unveil leader-related drivers of transaction costs between jurisdictions in a gravity-style estimation. We catalogue personal and career histories of county-level leaders and present evidence that leader networks derived from employment history are robustly trade-facilitating but nonworkplace links are not.

JEL-codes: D23 H73 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
Note: DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/le.100.3.040120-0046R1
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