Lixin Colin Xu
Biographic Data
| ID | 1633249 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lixin Colin Xu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lixin Colin |
| FAMILY NAME | Xu |
| SIGNATURE | XU L C |
| AFFILIATIONS | World Bank |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Why Do People Become Fraud Victims? The Role of Credit Constraints in Urban China
Property rights, fiscal capacity, and social capacity
Female entrepreneurs and productivity around the world
Enforcing government policies
The heterogeneous growth effects of the business environment
Using firm-level data covering 709 cities in 128 countries, we examine the role of a comprehensive list of business and institutional environment variables at the sub-national level in explaining firm employment and productivity growth. We find basic protection (with corruption as an element), access to finance and infrastructure, and the existence of a strong agglomeration environment to be critically important. By contrast, human capital and a …
Hayek, Local Information, and Commanding Heights
Hayek (1945) argues that local information is key to understanding the efficiency of alternative economic systems and whether production should be centralized or decentralized. The Chinese experience of decentralizing SOEs confirms this insight: when the distance to the government is farther, the SOE is more likely to be decentralized, and this distance-decentralization link is more pronounced with higher communication costs and greater firm-perf…
Social Capital, Finance, and Consumption
Using a new, nationally representative sample of Chinese households, this paper studies how social capital affects access to credit and its implications for consumption levels. The paper focuses on two specific forms of social capital: private social networks and membership in the Communist Party. Although party affiliation is linked to higher consumption in rural areas, those benefits are direct and thus do not work through credit markets. The m…
The long-run effects of treated water on education
Telecommunications Externality on Migration
This paper uses a unique natural \n experiment in Chinese villages to investigate whether access \n to telecommunications-- in particular, landline phones -- \n increases the likelihood of outmigration. By using regional \n and time variations in the installation of landline phones, \n the difference-in-differences estimation shows that access \n to landline phones increases the ratio of out-migrant \n workers by 2 percentage points, or about 50 …
Explaining Africa's (Dis)advantage
Eat, Drink, Firms, Government
We propose entertainment and travel costs (ETC) expenditures as a measure of corruption in Chinese firms. These expenses are publicly reported in firms' accounting books, and on average they amount to about 3 percent of a firm's total value added. We find that ETC is a mix that includes grease money to obtain better government services, protection money to lower tax rates, managerial excesses, and normal business expenditures to build relational …
Institutions and Foreign Direct Investment
Regulatory Reforms in the Telecommunications Sector in Developing Countries
Who gets credit? The behavior of bureaucrats and state banks in allocating credit to Chinese state-owned enterprises
Ownership, Competition, and Corruption
Over the past few years, many studies have looked at the macroeconomic, cultural, and institutional determinants of corruption. This study complements these cross-country studies by focusing on microeconomic factors that affect bribes paid in a single sector of the economy. Using enterprise-level data on bribes paid to utilities in 21 transition economies in Easter Europe and Central Asia, the authors look at how characteristics of the firms payi…
Are There Returns to the Wages of Young Men from Working While in School
This paper examines the effects of work experience acquired while youth were in high school (and college) on young men's wage rates. Previous studies have found sizeable and persistent rates of return to working while enrolled in school, especially high school, on subsequent wage growth. We evaluate the extent to which these estimates represent causal effects by assessing the robustness of prior findings to controls for unobserved heterogeneity a…
Corruption, Income Distribution, and Growth
This paper uses an encompassing framework developed by Murphy et al. (1991, 1993) to study corruption and how it affects income distribution and growth. We find that (1) corruption affects income distribution in an inverted U‐shaped way, (2) corruption alone also explains a large proportion of the Gini differential across developing and industrial countries, and (3) after correcting for measurement errors, corruption seems to retard economic grow…
Determinants of the Repartitioning of Property Rights between the Government and State Enterprises
The long-run effects of treated water on education
Who gets credit? The behavior of bureaucrats and state banks in allocating credit to Chinese state-owned enterprises
Explaining Africa's (Dis)advantage
Female entrepreneurs and productivity around the world
Institutions and Foreign Direct Investment
Regulatory Reforms in the Telecommunications Sector in Developing Countries
The heterogeneous growth effects of the business environment
Using firm-level data covering 709 cities in 128 countries, we examine the role of a comprehensive list of business and institutional environment variables at the sub-national level in explaining firm employment and productivity growth. We find basic protection (with corruption as an element), access to finance and infrastructure, and the existence of a strong agglomeration environment to be critically important. By contrast, human capital and a …
Determinants of the Repartitioning of Property Rights between the Government and State Enterprises
Determinants of the Repartitioning of Property Rights between the Government and State Enterprises
Corruption, Income Distribution, and Growth
This paper uses an encompassing framework developed by Murphy et al. (1991, 1993) to study corruption and how it affects income distribution and growth. We find that (1) corruption affects income distribution in an inverted U‐shaped way, (2) corruption alone also explains a large proportion of the Gini differential across developing and industrial countries, and (3) after correcting for measurement errors, corruption seems to retard economic grow…
Ownership, Competition, and Corruption
Over the past few years, many studies have looked at the macroeconomic, cultural, and institutional determinants of corruption. This study complements these cross-country studies by focusing on microeconomic factors that affect bribes paid in a single sector of the economy. Using enterprise-level data on bribes paid to utilities in 21 transition economies in Easter Europe and Central Asia, the authors look at how characteristics of the firms payi…
Are There Returns to the Wages of Young Men from Working While in School
This paper examines the effects of work experience acquired while youth were in high school (and college) on young men's wage rates. Previous studies have found sizeable and persistent rates of return to working while enrolled in school, especially high school, on subsequent wage growth. We evaluate the extent to which these estimates represent causal effects by assessing the robustness of prior findings to controls for unobserved heterogeneity a…
Who gets credit? The behavior of bureaucrats and state banks in allocating credit to Chinese state-owned enterprises
Regulatory Reforms in the Telecommunications Sector in Developing Countries
Institutions and Foreign Direct Investment
Eat, Drink, Firms, Government
We propose entertainment and travel costs (ETC) expenditures as a measure of corruption in Chinese firms. These expenses are publicly reported in firms' accounting books, and on average they amount to about 3 percent of a firm's total value added. We find that ETC is a mix that includes grease money to obtain better government services, protection money to lower tax rates, managerial excesses, and normal business expenditures to build relational …
Telecommunications Externality on Migration
This paper uses a unique natural \n experiment in Chinese villages to investigate whether access \n to telecommunications-- in particular, landline phones -- \n increases the likelihood of outmigration. By using regional \n and time variations in the installation of landline phones, \n the difference-in-differences estimation shows that access \n to landline phones increases the ratio of out-migrant \n workers by 2 percentage points, or about 50 …
Explaining Africa's (Dis)advantage
Social Capital, Finance, and Consumption
Using a new, nationally representative sample of Chinese households, this paper studies how social capital affects access to credit and its implications for consumption levels. The paper focuses on two specific forms of social capital: private social networks and membership in the Communist Party. Although party affiliation is linked to higher consumption in rural areas, those benefits are direct and thus do not work through credit markets. The m…
The long-run effects of treated water on education
Hayek, Local Information, and Commanding Heights
Hayek (1945) argues that local information is key to understanding the efficiency of alternative economic systems and whether production should be centralized or decentralized. The Chinese experience of decentralizing SOEs confirms this insight: when the distance to the government is farther, the SOE is more likely to be decentralized, and this distance-decentralization link is more pronounced with higher communication costs and greater firm-perf…
Enforcing government policies
The heterogeneous growth effects of the business environment
Using firm-level data covering 709 cities in 128 countries, we examine the role of a comprehensive list of business and institutional environment variables at the sub-national level in explaining firm employment and productivity growth. We find basic protection (with corruption as an element), access to finance and infrastructure, and the existence of a strong agglomeration environment to be critically important. By contrast, human capital and a …
Female entrepreneurs and productivity around the world
Why Do People Become Fraud Victims? The Role of Credit Constraints in Urban China
Property rights, fiscal capacity, and social capacity
Economics (16 works) · Business (13 works) · Political science (9 works) · China (7 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Corruption and Economic Development (5 works) · Demographic economics (5 works) · Corporate Finance and Governance (4 works) · Language change (4 works) · Market economy (4 works)