The Official Promotion Incentive: A New Re-estimation and Re-examination

Abstract

Based on three major theories, the Chinese local officials promotion incentive could be influenced by economic performances, political relationships and financial performances. However, there were some researchers focusing on these promotion mechanisms and then they got different outcomes. This paper achieves the goal for exploring the influence factors of officials promotion by using OLS empirical test. From collecting the data of Chinese local officials and cities’ economic conditions, we find that economic performances factor and political relationships fact can have a significant effect on officials promotion, but financial performances factor cannot have this effect. And the experiences and lesson of this research have some reference for exploration of Chinese local officials promotion incentive.