ECO100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Shadow Banking System, Financial Contagion, Maturity Transformation

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Chapter 17: (financial crisis: people face a trade-off between liquidity and the rate of return. Banks provide depositors liquidity and rate of return at the same time. Banks are able to do this through transformation, where they transform short-term liabilities into long-term assets: shadow banks have grown since 1980. They provide a higher interest rate but do not make deposits. Shadow banks engage in maturity transformation by funding from short- term borrowing to finance their investments in long-term assets. Unregulated banking institutions are highly vulnerable to contagion: during a banking crisis, the government tries to limit the damage by serving as a lender of last resort and by guaranteeing bank liabilities. The government may need to nationalize banks and reprivatize them later to slow or halt the spread of bank crisis: after banking crisis, follows a severe down turn in the economy.

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