Law and Finance in the Chinese Shadow Banking System

The Interrupted Power Law and the Size of Shadow Banking

Using public data (Forbes Global 2000) we show that the asset sizes for the largest global firms follow a Pareto distribution in an intermediate range, that is "interrupted" by a sharp cut-off in its upper tail, where it is totally dominated by financial firms. This flattening of the distribution contrasts with a large body of empirical literature which finds a Pareto distribution for firm size...

Banking and Shadow Banking

Tightening financial regulation squeezes banking activities into the shadow banking sector, which may hurt financial stability and production (Plantin, 2014). Unlike Plantin’s work, we investigate regulations that reduce banks’ leverage and dampen financial amplification effects. Moreover, our paper studies the trade-off between economic growth and financial stability in light of shadow banking...

Regulating the Shadow Banking System [with Comments and Discussion]

The shadow banking system played a major role in the recent financial crisis but remains largely unregulated. We propose principles for its regulation and describe a specific proposal to implement those principles. We document how the rise of shadow banking was helped by regulatory and legal changes that gave advantages to three main institutions: money-market mutual funds (MMMFs) to capture re...

Money, Banking, and Finance

Legal aspects of Shadow Banking

Shadow Banking system, as an investment method, while being an integral part of the supervised banking system, is a rival for banks and governance institutions in financing and oversight. As a result, its development has created a situation for regulated institutions, which leads to concerns about the legal and regulatory responsibilities of the banking and financial system for investment not g...