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Contagion Effects of Local Government Debt Risks: An Event Study Based on the Default of LGFV's Non‐Standard Debt

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  • Kong Wang
  • Minggui Yu
  • Tingting Xie

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In China, local governments generally mitigate the financing pressures by setting up local government financing vehicles (LGFVs), which can use standardised financing tools, such as bank loans and bonds, or employ non‐standardised financing methods. Exploiting the default events of non‐standard debt of LGFVs as natural experiments, we analyse the regional contagion effects of debt risk. We show that these defaults widen the credit spreads of non‐defaulkted LGFV bonds in secondary markets by weakening expectations of implicit government guarantees and tightening LGFVs’ financing constraints. Our findings provide new evidence on the spillover effects of default risk and highlight the economic implications of non‐standard debt defaults.

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  • Kong Wang & Minggui Yu & Tingting Xie, 2025. "Contagion Effects of Local Government Debt Risks: An Event Study Based on the Default of LGFV's Non‐Standard Debt," Accounting and Finance, Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 65(5), pages 4473-4486, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:acctfi:v:65:y:2025:i:5:p:4473-4486
    DOI: 10.1111/acfi.70104
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