“Alcohol Bans”: Can they reveal the effect of Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign?

Yang, Shu; Cai, Jiayao

doi:10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2017.09.004

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“…areas (Chen and Kung 2018;Lu and Lorentzen 2016;Shu and Cai 2017). Our analysis of the changes in government recruitment patterns lends greater support to the second viewthat is, China's anticorruption campaign has generally succeeded in lowering popular expectations about the availability of rent-seeking opportunities within the government.…”

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The Price of Probity: Anticorruption and Adverse Selection in the Chinese Bureaucracy

Jiang

Shao

Zhang

2020

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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Fighting corruption is often seen as a crucial step toward building better institutions, but how it affects political selection remains less well understood. This article argues that in systems where corruption functions as an informal incentive for government to attract talent, anticorruption initiatives that curb rent-seeking opportunities may unintentionally weaken both the quality and the representativeness of the bureaucracy. The authors test this argument in China using an original nationwide survey of government officials and an identification strategy that exploits exogenous variations in enforcement levels created by the recent anticorruption campaign. The study finds that intensified enforcement has generated two potentially negative selection effects: a deterrence effect that lowers the average ability of newly recruited bureaucrats, and a compositional effect that discourages the entry of lower-class individuals in favor of those who are affluent and well connected. These findings highlight important hidden human capital costs of corruption elimination in developing countries.

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The Price of Probity: Anticorruption and Adverse Selection in the Chinese Bureaucracy

Jiang

Shao

Zhang

2020

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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“…Lévêque (2020), instead, focuses on the importance of personal connections and using data from French municipal elections shows that relatives of individuals who supported the elected mayor were more likely to receive building permits. 4 An interesting study in the context of China is Shu and Cai's (2017) analysis of how a ban on lavish alcohol consumption at military banquets contributed to president Xi Jinping anti corruption campaign. 5 The original PEP data set has eight categories of politically exposed persons.…”

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Politically connected firms and privileged access to credit: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe

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Nicola

Panizza

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European Journal of Political Economy

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“…The campaign has alleviated the supporting role of corruption in financing of local SOEs (Qian 2018), and reduced bank loan loss provisions (Tao 2020). Shu and Cai (2017) find that the consumption of alcohol has declined significantly due to the ‘alcohol ban’, which is part of the anti‐corruption campaign. Nitschka (2018) shows that the stock performance and cash flow of luxury goods firms are negatively affected.…”

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“…Kong et al (2021) The anti-corruption campaign substantially improves firms' corporate social responsibility performance. Impact of anti-corruption on other economic issues Shu and Cai (2017) Alcohol ban positively contributes to the anticorruption campaign effect. Qian (2018) Corruption exists in financing activity for LFV (Local Financing Vehicles) before the anticorruption campaign.…”

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Corruption and anti‐corruption in China: a review and future research agenda

Tong

2021

Asian-Pac Economic Lit

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This paper systematically reviews the literature on corruption and anticorruption in China with a view to identifying opportunities for future research. We find that the research on corruption in China covered in existing literature is relatively narrow and theoretically insufficient. Specifically, studies mainly examine the corruption in firms, certain micro fields, and political fields; by contrast, studies on corruption in macro fields are scarce. In addition, extant studies on anti-corruption in China largely centre on examining the impact of the current anti-corruption campaign on firms, while analysis on the effects of anti-corruption policy actions by the Chinese government is inadequate.

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“Alcohol Bans”: Can they reveal the effect of Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign?

Cited by 27 publications

References 36 publications

The Price of Probity: Anticorruption and Adverse Selection in the Chinese Bureaucracy

The Price of Probity: Anticorruption and Adverse Selection in the Chinese Bureaucracy

Politically connected firms and privileged access to credit: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe

Corruption and anti‐corruption in China: a review and future research agenda

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