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Goodbye (Chinese) Shadow Banking, Hello Market-based Finance

Gabor, Daniela

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© 2018 International Institute of Social Studies Shadow banking in developing and emerging countries (DECs) oscillates between two semantic poles. One definition is typically deployed by scholars for the narrow analysis of non-bank financial intermediation as a viable alternative to banking. The other, more recent, definition circulates in the policy world to capture a new agenda of engineering (securities) market-based finance. This article argues that this second definition captures the essential but neglected aspect of shadow banking in DECs. The ‘shadow banking into market-based finance’ narrative reaffirms the celebratory tone of the financial globalization cum liberalization thesis dominant before the global financial crisis. It seeks to depoliticize contentious debates about capital flows and the constraints that financialized globalization poses to development, instead asking DECs to encourage portfolio flows, relax the regulatory grip on shadow funding markets and tap into the growing global demand for securities that marks the new age of asset management. China illustrates this argument well. In joining the global push for market-based finance with the ambition to further its RMB internationalization agenda, China underestimates the (Minsky-type) fragilities involved.

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Feb 2, 2018
Online Publication Date Feb 2, 2018
Publication Date Mar 1, 2018
Deposit Date Mar 5, 2018
Publicly Available Date Feb 3, 2020
Journal Development and Change
Print ISSN 0012-155X
Electronic ISSN 1467-7660
Publisher Wiley
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 49
Issue 2
Pages 394-419
DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12387
Keywords China, shadow banking, securities markets, collateral, wholesale funding, local currency markets, capital controls
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/871621
Publisher URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dech.12387
Related Public URLs http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dech.12387/abstract
Additional Information Additional Information : This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: [Gabor, D. (2017) Goodbye (Chinese) shadow banking, hello market-based finance. Development and Change. ISSN 0012-155X], which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dech.12387. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.
Contract Date Mar 5, 2018

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