Government efficiency and exports in China

Reinecke, Antonia; Schmerer, Hans-JÃ¶rg

doi:10.1080/14765284.2017.1356593

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“…They reported that corruption greatly reduced income by decreasing the returns to education of residents in urban areas and increasing the returns for those living in rural areas. Choi, Jiang, and Shenkar () found a positive relationship between government quality at provincial level and firm performance, whereas Reinecke and Schmerer () provided evidence to support the link between provincial government efficiency and firm‐level exports.…”

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Government institutions and the dynamics of urban growth in China

Rodríguez‐Pose

Zhang

2019

Journal of Regional Science

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Economic growth in China in recent decades has largely rested on the dynamism of its cities. High economic growth has coincided with measures aimed at improving the efficiency of local governments and with a mounting political drive to curb corruption. Yet the connection between government institutions and urban growth in China remains poorly understood. This paper is the first to look into the link between government efficiency and corruption, on the one hand, and urban growth in China, on the other hand and to assess what is the role of institutions relative to more traditional factors for economic growth in Chinese cities. Using panel data for 283 cities over the period between 2003 and 2014, the results show that the urban growth in China is a consequence of a combination of favorable human capital, innovation, density, local conditions, foreign direct investment, and city-level government institutions. Both government quality-especially for those cities with the best governments-and the fight against corruption at the city level have a direct effect on urban growth. Measures to tackle corruption at the provincial level matter in a more indirect way, by raising or lowering the returns of other growth-inducing factors. those of Tables 2,3. These can be made available upon request.RODRÍGUEZ-POSE AND ZHANG | 655 6 Endogeneity can be associated with a number of factors, including missing variables, reverse causality, and measurement errors. The use of system GMM is unlikely to fully address all these biases. In particular, the main source of endogeneity -reverse causality-cannot be really treated empirically without rigorous theoretical arguments. 7 The distance is the Euclidean distance between city i and city j. ORCID Andrés Rodríguez-Pose

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Government institutions and the dynamics of urban growth in China

Rodríguez‐Pose

Zhang

2019

Journal of Regional Science

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“…Uncertainty induced by unpredictable government actions is a hidden tax for the firms operating in the respective market. Reinecke and Schmerer (2017) find a negative effect of low government efficiency, as a determinant of institutional quality, on the positive relation of firm size and export volume. De Groot et al (2004) show that the degree of homogeneity in institutions introduces some security among trading partners associated with soaring export volumes between them.…”

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“…According toReinecke and Schmerer (2017) especially shortly before China's WTO entry in 2001 the number of private and foreign-owned establishments, that are characterized by higher export shares than SOEs, increased a lot. Thereby, private and foreign-owned firms are younger by trend.…”

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Estimating the Local Effectiveness of Institutions: A Latent-Variable Approach

Reinecke

Schmerer

2019

SSRN Journal

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“…We also construct a city efficiency measure based on Tang, Tang, and Lee (2014). More efficient local governments are associated with faster urban growth and more exports (Reinecke & Schmerer, 2017; Rodríguez-Rose & Zhang 2019). More efficient local government might be better at dealing with a health emergency.…”

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Local public health officials and COVID-19: evidence from China

Jiang

Wang

2022

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PurposeDid Chinese cities whose public health departments are headed by medical professionals fare better in fighting coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)?Design/methodology/approachThe authors collected the professional background of the directors of the public health departments of 350 Chinese cities, which include 87% of the Chinese population. Excluding Wuhan, the epicenter of COVID-19, the authors analyzed the infection rates and death rates from COVID-19 between 131 Chinese cities whose public health departments are led by medical professionals and 218 cities whose public health departments are led by nonprofessionals. The authors employed a multivariate regression controlling for the number of people that traveled from Wuhan to each city, the local economic development and the number of hospital beds.FindingsChinese cities whose public health departments are led by medical professionals had 21 fewer confirmed cases per 10 million as of January 31, 2020 [95% CI, −40 to −3], 58 fewer cases per 10 million in the next 10 days [95% CI, −116 to 0], similar new cases between February 11 and February 20, 2020, and 3 fewer deaths per 10 million as of February 20, 2020 [95% CI, −7 to 0].Research limitations/implicationsAssociation could not make a strong causal claim.Practical implicationsLocal public health authorities are critical for combating a pandemic. The authors found that Chinese cities whose public health departments are headed by medical professionals were associated with lower infection rates and fewer death rates from COVID-19. The results were significant only at the start of the outbreak. This study’s results suggest that to better combat a pandemic, local public health authorities should be led by competent people who have a medical background.Originality/valueThe authors provide the first empirical evidence about the association between a local public health head's competence and the infection rate and death rate of COVID-19. The authors’ manually collected data also show that only 38% of the heads of the public health departments of Chinese cities have a medical background.

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Government efficiency and exports in China

Cited by 6 publications

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Government institutions and the dynamics of urban growth in China

Government institutions and the dynamics of urban growth in China

Estimating the Local Effectiveness of Institutions: A Latent-Variable Approach

Local public health officials and COVID-19: evidence from China

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