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Figure 6-6<br />

Growth of Shadow Banking, 1990–2014<br />

Trillions of U.S. Dollars<br />

28<br />

24<br />

20<br />

Gross Shadow<br />

Liabilities<br />

16<br />

12<br />

Net Shadow<br />

Liabilities<br />

Jun-2014<br />

8<br />

4<br />

Gross Liabilities of Banking<br />

Institutions<br />

0<br />

1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015<br />

Source: Federal Reserve Board; Haver Analytics.<br />

(SIVs), credit hedge funds, money market mutual funds, securities lenders,<br />

limited-purpose finance companies (LPFCs), and government-sponsored<br />

enterprises (GSEs). Pozsar et al. (2012) estimate the size of the shadowbanking<br />

sector over time using flow-of-funds data.3 Figure 6-6 uses the same<br />

methodology and shows that net liabilities of the shadow-banking sector<br />

grew at almost 1.5 times the growth rate of traditional banking sector liabilities<br />

in the decade preceding the financial crisis. By 2007, the net liabilities of<br />

the shadow-banking sector were substantially larger than the gross liabilities<br />

of banking institutions.<br />

As shown in Figure 6-7, there was rapid growth in financial firms’<br />

trading in unregulated over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives. Many institutions<br />

took on too much risk with, as it is now known, with too little capital<br />

and with too much dependence on short-term financing. Although the rise<br />

in trading volume in these markets may have been a rational response to<br />

financial and technological innovations, the financial crisis made clear that<br />

there was a lack of transparency and market oversight that required carefully<br />

considered regulatory solutions.<br />

3 The gross measure sums all liabilities recorded in the flow of funds that relate to<br />

securitization activity (MBS, ABS, and other GSE liabilities), as well as all short term money<br />

market transactions that are not backstopped by deposit insurance (repos, commercial paper,<br />

and other money market mutual fund liabilities). The net measure attempts to remove double<br />

counting.<br />

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