Shadow banking has become an important part of China’s financial system. By using the Chinese financial market data from 2007 to 2017, this paper constructs a dynamic Copula-CoVaR model to study the risk spillover effect of shadow banking in China. The empirical results show that there is a bi-directional risk spillover between shadow banking and financial market;and with the time going by, this kind of risk spillover effect gradually increases. Meanwhile, extreme risk spillover is asymmetric, the shadow banking has stronger extreme risk conta...