Can co-production be state-led? Policy pilots in four Chinese cities

Ground-level ozone in four Chinese cities

L. K. Xue, T. Wang, J. Gao, A. J. Ding, X. H. Zhou, D. R. Blake, X. F. Wang, S. M. Saunders, S. J. Fan, H. C. Zuo, Q. Z. Zhang, and W. X. Wang Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China Environment Research Institute, Shandong University, Ji’nan, Shandong, China Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, China Institut...

Can Industrial Policy Be Good Policy

Can industrial policy be market-ensuring (e.g. via antitrust or enforcement of property rights) and market-conforming (non-distorting)? Can it provide a political second-best solution by creating a smaller market distortion to prevent a larger one that results from political ferment? This paper explores issues of the definition of industrial policy, discusses market failure vs. government failu...

Policy Pilots and Evaluation

Housing migrants in Chinese cities: current status and policy design

China is experiencing an unprecedented urban revolution, with massive ruralto-urban migration. Owing to the discriminatory hukou system, millions of migrants are excluded from accessing subsidized housing and suffer severe housing poverty. How to provide decent and affordable housing to migrants is an unprecedented challenge in China. In this paper we aim to scrutinize the current migrant housi...

Referendum-led Immigration Policy in the Welfare State

Majority voting outcomes over different immigration levels of lowskilled workers are examined in a two-period overlapping-generation model in which the labour market and intraand intergenerational transfer schemes translate the impact of immigration into preferences of heterogeneous citizens. In most of the cases being examined, the model predicts a unique policy choice. However, a voting cycle...