Responses of China’s shadow banking system to exogenous shocks

The rapid expansion of China’s shadow banking system in recent years has led to continuous accumulation of risks and posed threats to the security of China’s real economy. According to the specific mechanism of China’s economic operation, this paper constructs a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model to analyse the responses of China’s shadow banking system to the exogenous shocks of benchmark interest rate adjustment, high-risk enterprise return rate fluctuation and shadow bank return rate fluctuation. Results indicate that (1) the shadow bank loan interest rate reacts intensively to the benchmark interest rate adjustment; (2) the shadow bank loan interest rate has immediate and short-term response to the fluctuation of high-risk enterprise return rate; (3) the fluctuation of shadow bank return rate indirectly affects the shadow bank loan interest rate. An empirical study using the time-varying VAR model provides further empirical evidence. The shadow banking risks caused by the impacts on the shadow bank loan interest would increase the fragility of China’s financial system and endanger the security of China’s real economy.