Decoding shadow banking : a primer -- Myth of Chinese banks' success and shadow banking -- Financial regulatory architecture : status quo -- Central bank and monetary policy -- Regulating wealth management products -- The logic (or illogic) of local government debts out of control -- Optimizing...

While the banking sector in Western countries has been heavily hit by the recent financial crisis, the banking sector in China seems to perform well. Nevertheless, the shadow banking system, it is said to be one of a variety of sources for the current financial crisis, is also in existence in...

Although the recent financial crisis badly hurt the Western banking sector, commercial banks in China appear to have weathered the storm rather well. Nevertheless, the shadow banking system – a culprit of the crisis – also exists in China and recently has taken a turn for the worse. Wealth...

"Shadow Banking in China: Risk, Regulation and Policy by Professor Shen Wei is a timely book, presenting readers with a comprehensive and coherent conceptualization of shadow banking in China. It systematically defines shadow banking, describes how the different types of shadow banking...

While the banking sector in Western economies had been heavily hit by the latest financial crisis, the banking sector in China seems to perform well. Nevertheless, as the shadow banking system is said to have been one of a variety of causes for the current financial crisis, it also exists in...