TY - CEPII
A1 - Sandra Poncet
A1 - Walter Steingress
A1 - Hylke Vandenbussche
TI - Financial Constraints in China: Firm-Level Evidence
IS - 2009-29
T3 - Working Papers
KW - Investment-cashflow sensitivity
KW - CHINA
KW - FIRM LEVEL DATA
KW - FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT
N2 - This paper uses a unique micro-level data-set over the period 1998-2005 on Chinese firms to test for the existence of a "political-pecking order" in the allocation of credit. Our findings are threefold. Firstly, private Chinese firms are credit constrained while State-owned firms and foreign-owned firms in China are not; Secondly, the geographical and sectoral presence of foreign capital alleviates credit constraints faced by private Chinese firms. Thirdly, geographical and sectoral presence of state firms aggravates financial constraints for private Chinese firms (“crowding out”). Therefore it seems that ongoing restructuring of the state-owned sector and further liberalization of foreign capital inflows in China can help to circumvent financial constraints and can boost the investment of private firms.
ER -