China's National Balance Sheet (2015): Leverage Adjustment and Risk Management - Softcover

Li, Yang; Zhang, Xiaojing; Chang, Xin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9811339902 ISBN 13: 9789811339905

Publisher: Springer, 2019

Synopsis

The book aims at perfecting the national governance system and improving national governance ability. It evaluates the balance sheets of the state and residents, non-financial corporations, financial institutions and the central bank, the central government, local government and external sectors – the goal being to provide a systematic analysis of the characteristics and trajectory of China’s economic expansion and structural adjustment, as well as objective assessments of short and long-term economic operations, debt risks and financial risks with regard to the institutional and structural characteristics of economic development in market-oriented reform. It puts forward a preliminary analysis of China’s national and sectoral balance sheets on the basis of scientific estimates of various kinds of data, analyzes from a new perspective the major issues that are currently troubling China – development sustainability, government transformation, local government debt, welfare reform, and the financial opening-up and stability – and explores corresponding policies, measures, and institutional arrangements.

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About the Author

Li Yang, PhD in economics, CASS academician, member of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences, President of the National Finance and Development Laboratory, and former vice president of CASS. His major research areas include banking, macroeconomics and finance. He has won the Sun Yefang Fiscal Science Awards five times, and the China Soft Science Award and Sun Yefang Financial Innovation Award in 2015.

Zhang Xiaojing, researcher, deputy director, Institute of Urban Development and Environment, CASS, deputy director of National Finance and Development Laboratory. His main research fields include open economy macroeconomics, growth theory and development economics. Having been a visiting scholar at the Stockholm School of Economics, Harvard University, the (US) National Bureau of Economic Research and the International Monetary Fund, he has won Sun Yefang Fiscal Science Award twice, the China Soft Science Award in 2015, and the Sun Yefang Financial InnovationAward in 2015, among others. 

Chang Xin, researcher at the Institute of Economics CASS. Her main research interests are macro economy, public economy and system economy. She was a visiting researcher at the Department of Economics, Yale University from August 2004 to August 2005, with the support of the Ford Foundation. She has published two monographs and more than 20 papers in Economic Research Journal, Economic Perspectives, etc. and has hosted or participated in more than 10 projects supported by the National Social Science Foundation or by CASS.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9811339902
• ISBN 13: 9789811339905
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256