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On Shadow Banking and Financial Frictions in DSGE Modeling

  • Philipp Kirchner EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: September 17, 2020

Abstract

At the forefront of macroeconomic research on the causes of the Great Financial Crisis (GFC) was and still is the usage of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models. To capture the nonlinearities of the GFC, these models were enriched with a variety of financial frictions. This paper focuses on a special subset of these frictions, the shadow banking system. We provide a structured review of the strand of literature that considers shadow banking in DSGE setups and draw particular attention to the modeling approach as well as impact of shadow banking. Our analysis allows the following conclusions: firstly, models featuring shadow banking are better able to simulate realistic movements in the business cycle that are of comparable magnitude to the GFC. Secondly, the models consider amplification channels between the financial sector and the real economy that proved to be of importance during the crisis. Thirdly, the models display a good explanatory power of financial stability measures in the light of shadow banking.

JEL Classification: E10; E44; E32

Corresponding author: Philipp Kirchner, Universität Kassel Fachbereich 07 Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Institute of Economics, Nora-Platiel-Str. 4, 34109Kassel, Germany, E-mail:

Acknowledgments

I would like to thank Jochen Michaelis, Benjamin Schwanebeck and an anonymous referee for very helpful suggestions.

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