author = { Si, Ruichao AND Xu, Gang AND Xu, L. Colin },

title = { Bureaucrats, Tournament Competition, and Performance Manipulation Evidence from Chinese Cities },

publisher = {World Bank},

keywords = { Development Research Group; Time-varying Variable; Political Cycle; Linear Time Trend; Bureau Of Statistic; Public Sector Job; Prior Work Experience; Quality Of Bureaucracy; Local Economic Growth; Open Door; Real Economic Activity; Local Government Budget; High Population Density; Local Economic Development; Local Government Official; Amount Of Power; Regional Economic Performance; Economic Growth Rate; Real Gdp; Career Compensation; Value Added; Bureaucratic Performance; Bureaucratic System; Fiscal Revenue; Socioeconomic Variables; Economic Region; Career Track; Summary Statistic; Demographic Characteristic; Light Intensity; Tertiary Sector; Industrial Value; Career Advancement; Political Connections; Ratchet Effect; First Year; Political Competition; Econometric Model; Economic Statistic; Strategic Competition; Target Setting; Data Manipulation; Sample Survey; Weighted Average; Political Incentive; Catering Sector; Industrial Sector; City Government; Local Development; Party Committee; Negative Value; Small Area; Low Density; Local Condition; Aggregate Outcome; Insurance Sector; Complementary Factor; Government Behavior; Coal Mine; Total Output; Administrative Boundary; Communist Party; General Literature; Administrative Ranks; Political Mechanism; Construction Enterprise; Professional Life; Data Processing; Performance Metrics; Raw Data; Criminal Penalty; Regression Results; Regional Distribution; Standard Deviation; Negative Sign; Solid Line; Robustness Check; Freight Volume; Baseline Regression; Empirical Specification; High Probability; Job Loss; Geographic Proximity; Subsequent Years; Take Time; Entry Date; City Leadership; Personal Network; Lower Costs; Other Sectors; Administrative Level; Parsimonious Model; Linear Trend; Common Political; Marginal Return; Party Discipline; Statistical Agency; Limited Information; Prefecture Governments; Recent Years; Air Force; Cloud Cover; Human Settlement; Government Play; City Official; Ethnic Minorities; Available Data; Collected Data; Great Power; Local Politician; Promotion Rate; Government Cadre; Socioeconomic Conditions; Statistical Yearbook; Descriptive Statistic; Satellite Data; Fixed Effect; Fitted Value; Measurement Error; Technological Innovation; Performance Reporting; Competition Framework; Institutional Environment; State Capacity; Research Support; Several Reasons; Macroeconomic Analysis; Financial Interest; Empirical Result; Centralized State; Institutional Context; Delivering Services; Public Services; Private Benefit; Rent Seeker; Public Choice; Bureaucratic Quality; Across Province; Local Economy; Promoting Growth; Performance Incentive; Good Performance; Administrative Hierarchy; Data Quality; Information Asymmetry; Open Access; Relative Performance; Development Policy },

year = {2022},

abstract = {China},

abstract = {East Asia and Pacific},

address = { Washington, DC },

url = { http://slubdd.de/katalog?TN_libero_mab2 }