By analyzing a panel on the political turnovers of 4390 county leaders in China during 1999–
2008, we find that the revenue windfalls accrued to these officials from land sales have …

Uneven land reform and entangled land-use regulations are extensively regarded as the
key to urban sprawl in large cities in China. Although the significance of land issues has …

This article examines the rationale behind municipal and local governments' pursuance of
urbanization, and the political and socio-economic implications of the policy to move …

This study investigates the driving forces of land urbanization in China. Drawing upon
insights from the institutional perspective, this study argues that fiscal decentralization …

In a growing body of literature on urbanization in China, scholars have emphasized the
proactive role of the Chinese local state in urban land expansion. Drawing upon official land …

Land use change is not only the consequence of economic growth but also its direct and
indirect driver. Based on official land use change data from 2004 to 2008, this study found …

China is undergoing an unprecedented urbanization process in which massive amounts of
rural land has been converted to urban use. Indeed, rapid urban land expansion in China …

Land is an important tool for local governments to attract investments and promote local
economic growth in China. Based on panel data of Chinese prefecture-level cities from 2003 …

This paper focuses on evolving land acquisition compensation policy and practice in
Hangzhou, a better-developed coastal city in the Yangtze River Delta Region, by assessing …

Using micro-level data of Chinese manufacture firms for the year 2009, this paper estimates
a conditional logit model to examine the impact of industrial land supply and allocation …