The Political Cost of Market-Oriented Reforms: Evidence from Privatization of State-Owned Enterprises in China

• In Event: Policymaking and Responses to Policymaking in China

Brief Overview

I investigate the long-run political cost of privatization with a comprehensive and original dataset covering over 77,000 Chinese state-owned Enterprises. I also examine different mechanisms driving the long-run political distrust.

Author

• Xingchen Lan, Stanford University