China as an International Lender of Last Resort

Data on China's international rescue lending is available here. Please cite as "Horn, Sebastian, Bradley Parks, Carmen M. Reinhart, and Christoph Trebesch. 2023. China as an International Lender of Last Resort. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 10380."

World map of external debt to China

Download: The underlying dataset and replication files can be found here. Comments and feed-back are highly appreciated. Please cite as: "Horn, Sebastian, Carmen M. Reinhart, and Christoph Trebesch. 2019. China's Overseas Lending. NBER Working Paper No.  26050."

How China Lends: Database of Chinese loan contracts

Cross-border loan contracts by Chinese and other official and private creditors can be accessed through a public repository here

Please cite as: "Gelpern, Anna, Sebastian Horn, Scott Morris, Brad Parks and Christoph Trebesch. 2021. How China Lends: A Rare Look Into 100 Loan Contracts with Foreign Governments. CEPR Discussion Paper 16331."


Debt Restructurings and "Hidden Defaults"

Data on restructuring events with Chinese, Paris Club and private creditors can be found here. Please cite as "Horn, Sebastian, Carmen M. Reinhart, and Christoph Trebesch. 2022. Hidden Defaults. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 9925."