Shadow Banking and Interest Rate Liberalization: Evidence from Wealth Management Products and Interbank CDs in China

Speaker: Dr. Ji Huang (University of Washington)


Topic:	Shadow Banking and Interest Rate Liberalization: Evidence from Wealth Management Products and Interbank CDs in China
Time & Date:	10:30am-12:00pm, 2017/12/22
Venue:	Room 502, Daoyuan Building, CUHK(SZ)
Speaker:	Dr. Ji Huang， National University of Singapore
Detail:	Banks bear risks that originate from their shadow banking businesses. To quantify banks' risk exposure to their shadow banking activities, we compile a comprehensive product-level data on one of China's major shadow banking sectors, the wealth management product (WMP) sector, and link it to interbank CD data. In this paper, we have three main findings: 1) small and medium-sized banks assume more risks from their WMPs than large banks do; 2) banks bear more risks from their institutional WMP than from retail ones; 3) the introduction of the inter- bank CD market increases risks that small and medium-sized banks bear from their non-interbank WMPs.