Land leasing and local government behaviour in China: Evidence from Beijing

Urban Studies

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 841-856

  Yang, Zan ^a   Ren, Rongrong ^a   Liu, Hongyu ^a   Zhang, Huan ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Beijing; land lease; listing auction; local government behaviour; tender auction

Indexed keywords

LAND MARKET; LAND TENURE; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; PRICE DYNAMICS; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA;

EID: 84922757300     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042098014529342     Document Type: Article

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