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Banks as Patient Fixed-Income Investors
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| Other Authors: | Shleifer, Andrei [Other] • Stein, Jeremy C. [Other] • Vishny, Robert W. [Other] |
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| Type of Resource: | E-Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass
National Bureau of Economic Research
July 2014
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NBER working paper series |
| Source: | Verbunddaten SWB Lizenzfreie Online-Ressourcen |
| Summary: | We examine the business model of traditional commercial banks in the context of their co-existence with shadow banks. While both types of intermediaries create safe "money-like" claims, they go about this in different ways. Traditional banks create safe claims by relying on deposit insurance, supported by costly equity capital. This structure allows bank depositors to remain "sleepy": they do not have to pay attention to transient fluctuations in the mark-to-market value of bank assets. In contrast, shadow banks create safe claims by giving their investors an early exit option that allows them to seize collateral and liquidate it at the first sign of trouble. Thus traditional banks have a stable source of funding, while shadow banks are subject to runs and fire-sale losses. These different funding models in turn influence the kinds of assets that traditional banks and shadow banks hold in equilibrium: traditional banks have a comparative advantage at holding fixed-income assets that have only modest fundamental risk, but are relatively illiquid and have substantial transitory price volatility |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files. |
| DOI: | 10.3386/w20288 |
| Access: | Open Access |