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Shadow banking: policy challenges for central banks

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  • Thorvald Grung Moe

    (Norges Bank)

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Central banks responded with exceptional liquidity support during the financial crisis to prevent a systemic meltdown. They broadened their tool kit and extended liquidity support to nonbanks and key financial markets. Many want central banks to embrace this expanded role as “market maker of last resort” going forward. This would provide a liquidity backstop for systemically important markets and the shadow banking system that is deeply integrated with these markets. But how much liquidity support should central banks provide to the shadow banking system without risking their balance sheets? And would not an accommodative market-making role send the wrong signals to market participants? I discuss the expanding role of the shadow banking sector and the key drivers behind its growing importance. There are close parallels between the growth of shadow banking before the recent financial crisis and earlier financial crises, with rapid growth in near monies as a common feature. This endogenous ebb and flow of shadow banking-type liabilities is indeed an ingrained part of our advanced financial system. We should think twice before we let central banks backstop the liquidity needs of private shadow banking markets, at least not before there has been substantial market reform. It would indeed be ironic if central banks were to declare victory in the fight against too-big-to-fail institutions, just to end up bankrolling too-big-to-fail financial markets.

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  • Thorvald Grung Moe, 2015. "Shadow banking: policy challenges for central banks," Journal of Financial Perspectives, EY Global FS Institute, vol. 3(2), pages 31-42.
    • Handle: RePEc:ris:jofipe:0071
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    1. Steffen Murau, 2017. "Shadow money and the public money supply: the impact of the 2007–2009 financial crisis on the monetary system," Review of International Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(5), pages 802-838, September.
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    4. Huiyi Zhang & Richard Skolnik & Yue Han & Jinpei Wu, 2020. "The Impacts of China's Shadow Banking Credit Creation on the Effectiveness of Monetary Policy," International Journal of Finance & Banking Studies, Center for the Strategic Studies in Business and Finance, vol. 9(4), pages 33-46, October.
    5. Daniela M. Prates & Maryse Farhi, 2015. "The shadow banking system and the new phase of the money manager capitalism," Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 37(4), pages 568-589, May.
    6. Gökçer Özgür, 2021. "Shadow banking and financial intermediation," Metroeconomica, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 72(4), pages 731-757, November.

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    • G01 - Financial Economics - - General - - - Financial Crises
    • G10 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - General (includes Measurement and Data)
    • G17 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Financial Forecasting and Simulation

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