The Price of Informality: How Informal Finance Schemes Defaulted in China, 1989–2015

Lin, L.; Yang, K.

Abstract

The default of a large number of informal finance schemes in China has caused enormous financial losses, and therefore has potential social and political significance. Analysing 354 defaulted schemes from 1989 to 2015, this study defines how they differ from other types of informal finance. It also produces an ideal-type representation of the default process and concludes that the default results from greed, increasing financial pressure at the individual level and private enterprises’ restricted access to state bank loans at the institutional level. China’s financial system should be more flexible in order to prevent further financial losses through informal financial relations.

Citation

Lin, L., & Yang, K. (2017). The Price of Informality: How Informal Finance Schemes Defaulted in China, 1989–2015. China: An International Journal, 15(4), 111-135

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jan 23, 2017
• Online Publication Date: Nov 30, 2017
• Publication Date: Nov 30, 2017
• Deposit Date: Feb 14, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 23, 2018
• Journal: China: An International Journal
• Print ISSN: 0219-7472
• Electronic ISSN: 0219-8614
• Publisher: Singapore University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 111-135
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1365539
• Publisher URL: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/680686