The Influence of Administrative Division Adjustment on Enterprise Earnings Management: A Quasi-Natural Experiment on City–County Consolidation by Yueling Xu, Yijiu Ge, Haijun Bao

Subjects: “…city–county consolidation…”
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The Varieties of Consolidation Experience: A Synthesis and Extension of Local Government Consolidation Models by Charles D. Taylor, Dagney Faulk, Pamela Schaal

“…This article revises and extends Leland and Thurmaier’s (2004a, 2004b) City—County Consolidation (C3) model by synthesizing it with Johnson’s (2004) Theory of Local Constitutional Change (LCC) and Hughes and Lee’s (2002) Evolutionary Consolidation Model (ECM). …”
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Rationalization of Public Road Passenger Transport by Merging Bus Lines on the Example of Zadar County by Goran Kos, Predrag Brlek, Igor Franolić

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Assessment of Value Changes and Spatial Differences in Land Use Based on an Empirical Survey in the Manas River Basin by Xin Yan, Yuejian Wang, Na Liao, Hailiang Xu, Zili Fan

“…The scientific measurement of the integrative value of arable land before and after land consolidation can improve farmers’ overall understanding of the value of arable land, increase their awareness of arable land protection, and encourage them to implement arable land protection policies. …”
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Local government centralization and corporate ESG performance: Evidence from China’s county-to-district reform by Qihang Xue, Huimin Wang, Xiaole Ji, Jian Wei

“…As a city–county consolidation with Chinese characteristics, China’s county-to-district (CtD) reform transfers a county’s autonomy to a city, thereby strengthening the administrative, decision-making, fiscal and other powers of the prefecture-level municipal government, which effectively enables the centralization of local governments. …”
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Pro and Contra of the Parliamentary Threshold among Electoral Management Bodies (EMBs) and Political Parties: Seeking a Relevant Model for Indonesia’s Legislative Election by Ridho Al-Hamdi, Sakir Sakir, Tanto Lailam

“…Thus, the parliamentary threshold is still required to strengthen the consolidation of Indonesian democracy. Such a threshold is also an essential standard to encourage well institutionalized parties and to modernize them. …”
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Making urban progress legible : the role of territorial social indicators in the new economy by Johnson, Sarah Oz

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Has Administrative Zoning Adjustment Strengthened Land Property Operation? Policy Effects from Yangtze River Delta by Huang Jing, Li Kai

“…The empirical results show that administrative zoning adjustment strengthens the operation of land transfers in the adjusted areas, and shifts more industrial land at a lower price to attract investment and commercial and residential land at a higher price for more "land finance." 2) In the first five years after the administrative zoning adjustment, land price increased significantly, but the policy effect was not substantial after five years, indicating that the strengthening of land operation had a short-term effect. 3) Because of the difficulties in regional integration, different types of administrative zoning adjustments inflate land prices to varied degrees. Compared with "consolidation of municipal districts" and "adjustment of the scope of municipal districts," "withdrawal of cities (counties) to set up districts" has a lower impact on land price. …”
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