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Shadow Always Touches the Feet: Implications of Bank Credit Lines to Non-Bank Financial Intermediaries

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  • Viral V. Acharya
  • Manasa Gopal
  • Maximilian Jager
  • Sascha Steffen

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Using real estate investment trusts (REITs) that invest in commercial real estate (CRE) as a leading example, we study the implications for banks of extending credit lines to “shadow banks” or non-bank financial intermediaries (NBFIs). While small and mid-size banks hold an economically significant direct exposure in CRE term loans, a significant part of the CRE exposure of large banks is indirect via credit-line provision to REITs. Utilization of credit lines by REITs tends to be substantially more sensitive to market stress than non-financial corporates and other NBFIs. In turn, large banks suffer drawdowns and equity corrections in stress times from extending credit lines to REITs. Ignoring this NBFI credit line channel understates the exposure of large banks to stress. We propose a methodology to incorporate this exposure and its heterogeneity in bank capital stress tests.

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  • Viral V. Acharya & Manasa Gopal & Maximilian Jager & Sascha Steffen, 2025. "Shadow Always Touches the Feet: Implications of Bank Credit Lines to Non-Bank Financial Intermediaries," NBER Working Papers 33590, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    • Handle: RePEc:nbr:nberwo:33590
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    • G01 - Financial Economics - - General - - - Financial Crises
    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
    • G23 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Non-bank Financial Institutions; Financial Instruments; Institutional Investors

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