NBER Working Paper – Banking without Deposits: Evidence from Shadow Bank Call Reports
Author(s):Erica Jiang, Gregor Matvos, Tomasz Piskorski & Amit Seru Date:March 2020 (revised September 2023) Abstract: We ask how much leverage banks would choose in the absence of safety nets tied to insured deposits. Using uniquely assembled data on capital structure decisions of shadow banks – intermediaries that provide banking services but are not funded by[…]