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Second, using the prospect theory, risk aversion theory and Cournot duopoly model, the authors analyzed how to avoid the local government decision-making competition and how to reduce the harm caused by local government decision-making competition. <\/jats:p>\n            <\/jats:sec>\n            <jats:sec>\n               <jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Findings<\/jats:title>\n               <jats:p> \u2013 The central government can curb the appearance of local government competition strategy through regulating and controlling the effectiveness of local government protective-investment policy, improving the degree of market competition and punishment coefficient of government decision-making failure and further, the authors can reduce the detriment of decision-making competition between local governments through adjusting the revenue function of local government in the process of new-style urbanization. <\/jats:p>\n            <\/jats:sec>\n            <jats:sec>\n               <jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title>\n               <jats:p> \u2013 New-style urbanization is the main driving force of China\u2019s future economic development, however, in the process of new-style urbanization, because of the \u201cprinciple-agent\u201d relationship between central government and local government, officials achievements appraisal mechanism and promotion game, they all cause competition between local government decision making, and this will weaken the positive effect of urbanization. Although, there are many researches on horizontal and intergovernmental competition, most researches devoted to how to avoid it from the angle of institutional economics, and the suggestions put forward by these researches are hardly applied. Anyone interested in how to avoid local government decision-making competition and reduce the negative influences of it from the angle of unitary government state\u2019s reality will find this paper valuable.<\/jats:p>\n            <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1108\/k-06-2014-0119","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,7,7]],"date-time":"2015-07-07T10:40:54Z","timestamp":1436265654000},"page":"671-691","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":13,"title":["How to reduce local government decision-making competition in China\u2019s new urbanization process"],"prefix":"10.1108","volume":"44","author":[{"given":"Dong","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Hengzhou","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xiaoyan","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"140","reference":[{"key":"key2020122420225296700_b1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Ahmed, E.\n               , \n                  Agiza, H.N.\n                and \n                  Hassan, S.Z.\n                (1999), \u201cOn modeling advertisement in Cournot duopoly\u201d, \n                  Chaos Solitons & Fractals\n               , Vol. 10 No. 7, pp. 1179-1184.","DOI":"10.1016\/S0960-0779(98)00100-3"},{"key":"key2020122420225296700_b204","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Arvate, P.R.\n               , \n                  Curi, A.Z.\n               , \n                  Rocha, F.\n               , \n                  Miessi, S.\n                and \n                  Fabio, A.\n                (2010), \u201cCorruption and the size of government: causality tests for OECD and Latin American countries\u201d, \n                  Applied Economics Letters\n               , Vol. 17 No. 10, pp. 1013-1017.","DOI":"10.1080\/13504850802676207"},{"key":"key2020122420225296700_b205","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Baybeck, B.\n               , \n                  Berry, W.\n                and \n                  Siegel, D.\n                (2011), \u201cA strategic theory of policy diffusion via intergovernmental competition\u201d, \n                  The Journal of Politics\n               , Vol. 73 \n               No.1, pp. 232-247.","DOI":"10.1017\/S0022381610000988"},{"key":"key2020122420225296700_b206","unstructured":"Breton, A.\n               , (1996), \n                  Competitive Governments: An Economic Theory of Politics and Public Finance\n               , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge."},{"key":"key2020122420225296700_b6","unstructured":"Chen, L.\n                and \n                  Zhu, W.P.\n                (2014), \u201cCauses and governance of regional administrative monopoly\u201d, \n                  Journal of Systems & Management\n               , Vol. 23 No. 2, pp. 229-237."},{"key":"key2020122420225296700_b7","unstructured":"Chen, T.\n                and \n                  Liu, X.Y.\n                (2011), \u201cTournament system, promotion game and local political theatre\u201d, \n                  Journal of Public Management\n               , Vol. 8 No. 2, pp. 21-33."},{"key":"key2020122420225296700_b8","unstructured":"Cheng, J.H.\n                (2013), \u201cDecentralization, intergovernmental competition, and economic growth: a critical review\u201d, \n                  Legal Forum\n               , Vol. 27 No. 4, pp. 33-42."},{"key":"key2020122420225296700_b9","unstructured":"Chi, F.L.\n                and \n                  Kuang, X.M.\n                (2010), \u201cThe future direction of local competition\u201d, \n                  People\u2019s Tribune\n               , Vol. 5 No. 15, pp. 28-29."},{"key":"key2020122420225296700_b207","unstructured":"Cournot, A.A.\n                (1838), \u201cRecherchessur les principesmath\u00e9matiques de la th\u00e9orie des richessespar Augustin Cournot\u201d, L. 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