The incentives of China's urban land finance

Land Use Policy

Volumn 42, Issue , 2015, Pages 432-442

  Qun, Wu ^a   Yongle, Li ^b   Siqi, Yan ^c  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

"Land finance" strategy; Competition between city governments; Fiscal decentralization; Institutional causes

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); DECENTRALIZATION; ECONOMETRICS; FINANCE; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; LAND USE PLANNING; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; STRATEGIC APPROACH; TAX SYSTEM; URBAN PLANNING;

CHINA;

EID: 84922287274     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2014.08.015     Document Type: Article

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