<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><xml><records><record><source-app name="HighWire" version="7.x">Drupal-HighWire</source-app><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chau, Nancy H.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Qin, Yu</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Zhang, Weiwen</style></author></authors><secondary-authors></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Leader Networks and Interjurisdictional Contracting in Land Conversion Quotas</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Land Economics</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2024</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2024-08-01 00:00:00</style></date></pub-dates></dates><pages><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">568-587</style></pages><doi><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">10.3368/le.100.3.040120-0046R1</style></doi><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">100</style></volume><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3</style></issue><abstract><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Do network connections between government officials and administrative units facilitate efficient land use contracting across jurisdictions? This article leverages data from a groundbreaking policy in China where a strict quota-bound land use policy was replaced with an alternative, allowing between-county trade in land conversion quotas. We unpack the determinants of the boundary between trading and autarkic jurisdictions and unveil leader-related drivers of transaction costs between jurisdictions in a gravity-style estimation. We catalogue personal and career histories of county-level leaders and present evidence that leader networks derived from employment history are robustly trade-facilitating but nonworkplace links are not.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>