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KCI등재 학술저널

State-Owned Enterprises and Debt Sustainability Analysis

The Case of the People’s Republic of China

The paper aims to combine balance sheet analysis at the firm level with the International Monetary Fund’s public debt sustainability assessment framework to assess state-owned enterprises’ (SOE) leverage as a contingent liability to the public sector. Based on company data and the interest coverage ratio as a measure of debt at risk, aggregate baseline scenarios are projected to gauge the magnitude of SOE debt as a contingency. SOE’s financial and debt ratios are first bootstrapped to generate firm-level distributions and then averaged into a fan chart of the economy-wide SOE contingent liability. Applied to the People’s Republic of China as an example, the study finds that by the end of 2015 SOE leverage had grown to a substantial liability. However arbitrary the assumptions underlying these projections, it would appear that even if authorities had to mop up as much as 20% of SOE debt at risk gone bad, this would have been manageable at roughly 2.7% of the gross domestic product in 2016 or 5.5% by 2021. This projection framework is fully amenable to alternative assumptions and settings, which makes it a useful analytical tool to monitor contingent liabilities from non-financial corporate debt that have been building in emerging and advanced economies alike.

1. Introduction

2. Debt Sustainability Analysis with SOE Contingent Liabilities

3. State-Owned Enterprise Debt at Risk: Data Sources and Definitions

4. State-Owned Enterprise Contingent Liabilities Projections and Fan Charts

5. Conclusion

References

Appendix 1: Assumptions Underlying Baseline and Scenario Projections

Appendix 2: Contingent Liability Baseline and Fan Charts By Sectors (% of GDP)

Appendix 3: Debt Dynamics in the IMF Debt Sustainability Framework for Market-Access Countries