Refinancing and Decentralization: Evidence from China.
Decentralization can complement market liberalization by strengthening incentives of agents to exploit local information in response to market signals. In China, however, banks centralized lending authority following financial reforms in the mid-1990s. We offer a new theory of financial decentraliza...
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Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2008
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