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Abstract

We compare the European and Chinese shadow banking systems. While the European shadow banking system is better developed than the Chinese shadow banking system, herd behavior and other factors in European markets create systemic risk, which contributed in part to the financial crisis. Dispersion of risk across the "under-developed" shadow banking system in China has led to some cases of localized, concentrated risk, but not to systemic risk. We discuss proposed European shadow banking regulation and its implications for systemic risk, and discuss what lessons China might glean from such policies. We also discuss what lessons
China's diverse and systemically uncoordinated shadow banking sector might provide for Europe.

Publication Type:	Monograph (Working Paper)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HG Finance
Departments:	School of Policy & Global Affairs > International Politics > CITYPERC Working Paper Series

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