Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/206411 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
CFS Working Paper Series No. 632
Publisher: 
Goethe University Frankfurt, Center for Financial Studies (CFS), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
In China, between 2006 and 2013, local public debt crowded out the investment of private firms by tightening their funding constraints, while leaving state-owned firms' investment unaffected. We establish this result using a purpose-built dataset for Chinese local public debt. Private firms invest less in cities with more public debt, the reduction in investment being larger for firms located farther from banks in other cities or more dependent on external funding. Moreover, in cities where public debt is high, private firms' investment is more sensitive to internal cash flow, also when cash-flow sensitivity is estimated jointly with the probability of being credit-constrained.
Subjects: 
investment
local public debt
crowding out
credit constraints
China
JEL: 
E22
H63
H74
L60
O16
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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