Why Do Entrepreneurs Enter Politics? Evidence from China
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- G1 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets
- H00 - Public Economics - - General - - - General
- O10 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - General
- P2 - Economic Systems - - Socialist Systems and Transition Economies
- P3 - Economic Systems - - Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions
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