Low growth, low investment, insufficient spend on infrastructure, weak bank lending to the corporate sector, and … fundamental problems in the financing of European companies and in Europe's financial systems. Are these concerns valid and do the … right policy prescriptions been identified to date? A product of the Restarting European Investment Finance research …

In China, between 2006 and 2013, local public debt crowded out the investment of private firms by tightening their … funding constraints, while leaving state-owned firms' investment unaffected. We establish this result using a purpose …-built dataset for Chinese local public debt. Private firms invest less in cities with more public debt, the reduction in investment …

In China, local public debt issuance between 2006 and 2013 crowded out investment by private manufacturing firms by …-level investment ratio of domestic private manufacturing firms. Instrumental variable regressions indicate that this link is causal …. Second, local public debt has a larger negative effect on investment by private firms in industries more dependent on …