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A Model of Shadow Banking


Nicola Gennaioli


Centro di Ricerca sull'Economia delle Istituzioni (CREI) (Research Center on Economics of Institutions)

Andrei Shleifer


Harvard University - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)

Robert W. Vishny


University of Chicago - Booth School of Business; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
April 16, 2012

Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 12-38
Fama-Miller Working Paper

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We present a model of shadow banking in which banks originate and trade loans, assemble them into diversified portfolios, and finance these portfolios externally with riskless debt. In this model: outside investor wealth drives the demand for riskless debt and indirectly for securitization, bank assets and leverage move together, banks become interconnected through markets, and banks increase their exposure to systematic risk as they reduce idiosyncratic risk through diversification. The shadow banking system is stable and welfare improving under rational expectations, but vulnerable to crises and liquidity dry-ups when investors ignore tail risks.

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Date posted: August 21, 2012  

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Gennaioli, Nicola, Shleifer, Andrei and Vishny, Robert W., A Model of Shadow Banking (April 16, 2012). Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 12-38; Fama-Miller Working Paper. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2133418 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2133418

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Nicola Gennaioli
Centro di Ricerca sull'Economia delle Istituzioni (CREI) (Research Center on Economics of Institutions) ( email )
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Rome, 00154
Italy
Andrei Shleifer
Harvard University - Department of Economics ( email )
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Robert W. Vishny (Contact Author)
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business ( email )
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National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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