China's sovereign debt: A balance-sheet perspective

China Economic Review

Volumn 31, Issue , 2014, Pages 55-73

  Xu, Jianguo ^a   Zhang, Xun ^a,b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Shanghai College of Finance   (China)

Author keywords

Capital returns; Government debt; Maturity mismatch; Public sector balance sheet

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906767119     PISSN: 1043951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2014.08.004     Document Type: Article

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