Essays on development economics and Chinese economy

This thesis consists of three independent chapters on development economics and Chinese economy. The first chapter examines how centralization affects regional development. I draw upon plausibly exogenous variations in centralization from a political hierarchy reform in China to investigate it in a...

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Main Author: Bo, Shiyu
Published: London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London) 2016
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.694198