Wenwei Peng
Biographic Data
| ID | 6317976 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wenwei Peng |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wenwei |
| FAMILY NAME | Peng |
| SIGNATURE | PENG W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0643-2130 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Court Capture, Local Protectionism, and Economic Integration
Court capture in developing countries is pervasive, yet its economic effects remain underexplored. We study a Chinese reform that transferred financial and personnel authority over local courts from local to provincial governments. Exploiting the staggered roll-out, we find a 7.3% decline in local defendants’ win rates against non-local plaintiffs, alongside improved judicial quality. The reform encouraged smaller non-local firms to litigate and …
Courting a Blue Sky? Understanding the Constrained Judicialization of Environmental Governance in China
This paper studies the constrained judicialization of environmental governance in China. It starts by quantitatively describing the judicialization of environmental protection in China over the past decade, including both its progresses and the suppressions that it faced, and shows that environmental courts have had virtually no tangible impact on reducing pollution levels. It then attempts to rationalize the observed patterns by answering two qu…
Airport noise and house prices
Airport noise and house prices
Courting a Blue Sky? Understanding the Constrained Judicialization of Environmental Governance in China
This paper studies the constrained judicialization of environmental governance in China. It starts by quantitatively describing the judicialization of environmental protection in China over the past decade, including both its progresses and the suppressions that it faced, and shows that environmental courts have had virtually no tangible impact on reducing pollution levels. It then attempts to rationalize the observed patterns by answering two qu…
Court Capture, Local Protectionism, and Economic Integration
Court capture in developing countries is pervasive, yet its economic effects remain underexplored. We study a Chinese reform that transferred financial and personnel authority over local courts from local to provincial governments. Exploiting the staggered roll-out, we find a 7.3% decline in local defendants’ win rates against non-local plaintiffs, alongside improved judicial quality. The reform encouraged smaller non-local firms to litigate and …
China (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Environmental Science (2 works) · Aircraft noise (1 work) · Business (1 work) · Capitalization (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Corporate governance (1 work) · Economic and Environmental Valuation (1 work) · Economic geography (1 work)