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1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Fiscal Policies and Political Economy

   Will Rising Debt in China Lead to a Hard Landing?

   Cang and Matt · International Journal of Economics and Finance · 2017

   Using published Chinese data since 1996 and Granger causality tests, the study examines what drives local government debt in China and what risks it poses, after Moody's downgrade of China's sovereign debt.

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   1. UncheckedIn China, local government debt rises with more spending on development and less revenue-sharing funding; fiscal income and GDP growth raise it, CPI rises lower it.“Some major findings are: i) local government debt is accumulated through more spending on economic development and less funding obtained from the revenue sharing scheme between governments. ii) fiscal income and GDP growth rate have positive impact on the increase of local government debt. iii) CPI…”