While administrative resources are thought to generate positive impacts on local economic conditions, most existing investigations of this relationship suffer from endogeneity concerns. Exploiting China’s Relocation Reform policies, we estimate the causal impacts of construction of new...

That tax haven policies contribute to favorable economic growth in tax haven countries is widely accepted in international policy dialogues. There is, however, minimal empirical evidence to substantiate this assertion. Empirical investigations are hampered by the likely endogeneity of tax haven...