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Ownership, Enforcement, and the Effects of Business Environment

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  • Qiang, Christine Zhenwei
  • Wang, He
  • Xu, L. Colin

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We investigate how the effects of the business environment depend on whether the measure is de jure or de facto, and how the business environment effects differ by ownership. Four aspects of the business environment are found to be relatively robust by multiple data sources: access to finance, electricity, internet, and human capital. The effects of de jure business environment indicators on firm performances depend on measures of contract enforcement. Foreign-owned firms benefit more from the maintenance of physical safety and ease in obtaining construction permits, and gain competitive advantage in productivity when domestic infrastructure or access to finance is worse.

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  • Qiang, Christine Zhenwei & Wang, He & Xu, L. Colin, 2021. "Ownership, Enforcement, and the Effects of Business Environment," Journal of Government and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 2(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:jogoec:v:2:y:2021:i:c:s2667319321000070
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jge.2021.100007
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    Keywords

    Business environment; Enforcement; State capacity; Ownership;
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    JEL classification:

    • D9 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics
    • G3 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance
    • H1 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government
    • H2 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
    • H7 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations
    • L5 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy
    • O1 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development

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