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Promotion Pressure and Fiscal Behavior of Public Officials: An Analysis of Subnational Infrastructure Financing in China

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Public Finance Review

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Abstract

Public Finance Review, Volume 54, Issue 5, Page 701-732, September 2026.
Despite the growing importance of infrastructure financing, the extent to which individual officials’ political incentives influence subnational fiscal decisions remains underexplored. This study finds that political incentives play a decisive role in ...