Global financial networks, municipal offshore financing and state-sponsored city-regional development
研究中国中央政府在市政离岸融资中的双重角色，既作为城市区域发展的利益相关者，又作为金融监管者，通过赋予特定城市优先进入全球金融市场的特权，加剧了地理不平等。
The municipal government in China has engaged deeply in offshore financing to lever local development projects. However, what is the role of the central government in this process? This paper answers this question by considering the central government’s dual role: as a stakeholder in city-regional development and as a financial regulator determining unequal access to financial markets among market actors. We argue that the Chinese central state has sponsored certain city-regions to develop by privileging the municipal government’s access to global financial markets to lever local entrepreneurial strategy. The state’s geopolitical/geoeconomic self-interests have underpinned the geographical inequality in municipal offshore financing.