ECO100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Consumer Protection, Shadow Banking System, Maturity Transformation

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There is a trade-off between liquidity and yield. Without banks, people would make this trade-off by holding a larger fraction of their wealth in idle cash. Banks allow savers to make a superior choice in their liquidity-yield trade-off because they engage in maturity transformation. Savers can have immediate access to their funds as well as earn interest on those funds: maturity transformation is the conversion of shirt-term liabilities into long-term assets. A shadow bank is the non-depository financial institution that engages in maturity transformation, generally they have largely been unregulated, allowing them to pay a higher rate of return to savers. Because shadow banks, like depository banks, engage in maturity transformation, they can also be hit by bank runs. They also depend on short- term borrowing to operate; when short-term lenders won"t lend to a shadow bank, their refusal causes the bank to fail.

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