ABSTRACT
A series of government-funded infrastructure investment was conducted all over
China, to drive local economic grow due to sluggish overseas demand suffered from
global financial crises. The volume of local government debt has increased drastically
since then. Lack of money has long been the key factor to restrain local social and
economic development, therefore, to some extent, financing through fiscal debt
address the capital issues when all local and central government are facing finance
gaps between income and expenditure. This stimulates urbanization in China and
inflicts an adverse impact on economic downtrend due to economic crisis.
However, there’re also many factors that may leads to solvency issues in local
government financing platform, generating credit risk and then transferred credit risk
to commercial banking system. Therefore, from the commercial bank side, there’s still
a giant amount of outstanding exposure regarding to local government financing
platform on the one hand, on the other hand is that there is still few part of local
government financing platform get new facility granting. This paper will mainly
concentrate on the credit risk of local government financing platform through
qualitative and quantitive analysis. The conclusion may bring positive effect to
measure and control of credit risk of local government financing platform
theoretically and in practice.
Analyzing from phenomenon to nature cause, the entire paper can be divided into
six chapters. In Chapter 1, the major is about paper focuses on credit risk of local
government financing platform facility. There is a brief background introduction and
organized related paper on this issue. Chapter 2 is mainly about theories. First the
credit risk management of commercial banks theory and local government financing
theory are stated separately. And with the 2 methodology introduced above,
summarize the theory about credit risk of local government financing platform loans.
In Chapter 3, in the beginning is the historical development of local government
platform, and followed by the statistic figures on its debt and loans. Based on the two
parts, the article begins to summarize the characteristics of credit risk of local
government financing platform loan and then digs the root cause of its credit, which
lies in facility granting preferences from bank, solvency problem from local
government platform and also about the own operation uncertainties in government
financing platform companies nature. The fourth Chapter uses Shanghai financing
platform companies as sample to establish the measure model of its credit risk of its
local government financing platform loans based on Logistic model. And we arrived
at the conclusion that factors combined economic and fiscal side with company
financial ratios are needed to estimate credit risk of local government financing
platform. Especially, the result show no direct statistical relation between probability
ratio and credit risk. In Chapter 5, the article proposes some policy advice for banks to