Assessing China's Corporate Sector Vulnerabilities /

This paper documents and assesses the risk stemming from rising corporate indebtedness in China using a firm-level dataset of listed firms. It finds that while leverage on average is not high, there is a fat tail of highly leveraged firms accounting for a significant share of total corporate debt, m...

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Autor principal: Chivakul, Mali
Outros Autores: Lam, Waikei
Formato: Periódico
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2015.
coleção:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2015/072
Acesso em linha:Full text available on IMF
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