Entrusted Loans: A Close Look at China's Shadow Banking System

63 Pages Posted: 16 Apr 2018

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Franklin Allen

Imperial College London

Yiming Qian

University of Connecticut - Department of Finance

Guoqian Tu

Chongqing University

Frank Yu

China Europe International Business School

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Date Written: April 2018

Abstract

We perform transaction-level analyses of entrusted loans-one of the largest components of shadow banking in China. Entrusted loans involve firms with privileged access to cheap capital channeling funds to less privileged firms, and increase when credit is tight. Nonaffiliated loans have much higher interest rates than both affiliated loans and official bank loans, and largely flow into real estate. The pricing of entrusted loans-especially of nonaffiliated loans-incorporates fundamental and informational risks. Stock market reactions suggest that both affiliated and nonaffiliated loans are fairly compensated investments.

Keywords: credit shortage, entrusted loans, fundamental risk, informational risk, shadow banking

JEL Classification: G23, G28

Suggested Citation

Allen, Franklin and Qian, Yiming and Tu, Guoqian and Yu, Frank, Entrusted Loans: A Close Look at China's Shadow Banking System (April 2018). CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP12864, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3163517

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Guoqian Tu

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Frank Yu

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