CEPR, October 4, 2010
Tobias Adrian, FRBNY* with Zoltan Pozsar, Adam Ashcraft, Hayley Boesky
*The
views expressed in this presentation are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York or the Federal Reserve System.
What Are Shadow Banks?
• Shadow banks are financial entities that conduct either all three or any one of the classic bank functions:
1. credit transformation,
2. maturity transformation,
3. liquidity transformation…
• …but without the liquidity and credit puts provided by the discount window and deposit insurance.
• Traditional banks did not become stable until the establishment of the Fed and FDIC in 1913 and 1933, respectively.
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Shadow Banking System is a web of
Specialized Financial Institutions
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The Shadow Banking System - Preliminary Draft for Comments; Do Not Forward Without Permission of Authors
Designed by Zoltan Pozsar (zoltan.pozsar@ny.frb.org)
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, March, 2010
The Traditional Banking System
Traditional Bank Liabilities
Assets
Loans
Cash
Flows
Bonds
Equity
Deposits
Loans
Equity
Discount Window
Loan
Collateral
Agency Debt Purchases
Agency
Debt
Reserves
Equity
Agency MBS Purchases
Agency
MBS
Reserves
11/25/2008
Loans
Depositors
Deposit Funding
Commercial Banks
Borrowers
Loans
Assets
Traditional Banks' Funding Sources
Short-Term Funding
Deposits
Checking
Accounts
CDs
Deposits
Equity Funding
Bank
Equity
Loans
Equity
Real Money Accounts*
Bank Equity
Short- to Long-Term Cash Investments
Money Market "Portfolios"
Checking
ShortAccount
Term
MMDAs
Savings
CDs
Ultimate Creditors
Households, Businesses, Governments, and the Rest of the World (RoW)
Long-Term Investments
Equity Portfolios
Equity Funding
Traditional Banks' Lending Process
Households, Businesses, Governments
The Traditional