Leader Networks and Interjurisdictional Contracting in Land Conversion Quotas

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...

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Published in:Land economics 2024-08, Vol.100 (3), p.568-587
Main Authors: Chau, Nancy H, Qin, Yu, Zhang, Weiwen
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Careers
Contracting
Conversion
Land use
Quotas
Transaction costs
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0023-7639
1543-8325
DOI:10.3368/le.100.3.040120-0046R1