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The Political Economy Determinants of the Firm Size Distribution: Evidence from China.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Political Economy Determinants of the Firm Size Distribution: Evidence from China./
Author:	Liu, Yu.
Description:	62 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-07(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-07A(E).
Subject:	Economics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3582271
ISBN:	9781321610468

The Political Economy Determinants of the Firm Size Distribution: Evidence from China.
Liu, Yu.

The Political Economy Determinants of the Firm Size Distribution: Evidence from China. - 62 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-07(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2014.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This paper investigates the relationship between discretionary charges, which I define to be fees and levies that are collected at the discretion of the local government, and the firm size distribution. I document that there is an inverted-U relationship between the discretionary charges paid by firms and the size of firms in China. I build a political economy model that captures interactions of firms, the local government, and the central government. These interactions explain why discretionary charges fall most heavily on medium-sized firms and, consequently, reduce the number of medium-sized firms. Using the 2002 Chinese Income Tax Reform as a natural experiment, I find that a 1 percentage-point reduction in local tax revenue increased discretionary charges on firms by approximately 2 percent on average, with medium-sized firms experiencing the largest increase of 4.7 percent. In addition, a 1 percentage-point reduction in local tax revenue resulted in a 1.2 percent decline in the number of medium-sized firms as a share of total firms. These results suggest that low local government tax revenues may help explain why there are relatively fewer medium-sized firms and why there is larger firm productivity dispersion in low-income countries.

ISBN: 9781321610468Subjects--Topical Terms:

517137
Economics.

The Political Economy Determinants of the Firm Size Distribution: Evidence from China.
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