Perry Mehrling, Columbia University, defines shadow banking as “money market funding of capital market lending.” This may or may not include banks.
Paul McCulley, PIMCO, defines it as “securitization-basedprivate money creation without a public backstop.”
影子银行的界定:
The modern shadow banking system, at its core, bears a surprising resemblance to the 19th
century
world that Walter Bagehot helped us to understand in his magisterial book Lombard Street: A
Description of the [London] Money Market (1873). At the heart of both worlds is the wholesale money
market, and operating as crucial liquidity backstop in both worlds is the central bank. At the time
Bagehot was writing, this backstop function was not yet fully understood, much less accepted; much the
same could be said of the central bank’s backstop of the shadow banking system today.