Shen, Huangnan, Fang, Lei and Deng, Kent 
ORCID: 0000-0002-9795-3646
(2017)
Rise of ‘Red Zaibatsu’ in China: entrenchment and expansion of large state-owned enterprises, 1990-2016.
Economic History working papers (260/2017).
Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
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Abstract
Ever since Deng Xiaoping’s reforms commencing in the 1980s, how to improve efficiency of state-owned enterprises has been on the government agenda. Progress has been made but more slowly than one expects in the decade. Even worse, against all the odds, China’s large state-owned firms, mega-SOEs, the backbone of Maoist economy previously, have gained exponential growth in the past decade. Reforms of that part of the economy have stalled. Why? To reveal the rationale and mechanisms of the rise of mega-SOEs, this study establishes a two-stage game model for an ‘authoritarian market economy’ (or a ‘market-Leninist economy’) where market monopoly and rent-seeking by state-owned conglomerates is firmly entrenched. Our findings confirm a ‘subgame perfect Nash equilibrium’ in China’s authoritarian market economy that has led the state (the owner or ‘principal’) and the large state-owned firms (the manager or the ‘agent’) to a paradox which prevents continuous reforms towards a Pareto solution for efficiency improvement.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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| Official URL: | http://www.lse.ac.uk/economicHistory/workingPapers... |
| Additional Information: | © 2017 The Authors |
| Divisions: | Economic History |
| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DS Asia H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions |
| JEL classification: | D - Microeconomics > D8 - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty > D86 - Economics of Contract: Theory L - Industrial Organization > L1 - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance > L13 - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets P - Economic Systems > P2 - Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies > P20 - General P - Economic Systems > P2 - Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies > P26 - Political Economy; Property Rights P - Economic Systems > P3 - Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions > P31 - Socialist Enterprises and Their Transitions |
| Date Deposited: | 03 May 2017 13:20 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Nov 2024 04:56 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/75214 |
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