Jiang, Erica; Matvos, Gregor; Piskorski, Tomasz; Seru, Amit - 2022
Is bank capital structure designed to extract deposit subsidies? We address this question by studying capital structure … banks finance themselves primarily with short-term debt and originate long-term loans. However, shadow bank debt is provided … primarily by informed and concentrated lenders. (4) Shadow bank leverage increases substantially with size, and the …