| Description |
1 online resource (39 pages) |
| Series |
IMF working paper, 1018-5941 ; WP/11/188 |
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IMF working paper ; WP/11/188.
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| Contents |
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; I. Introduction; II. The Model; 1. The Timeline; 2. The Two Opposite Effects of Capital on Bank Risk-taking; III. "Skin in the Game" and Tail Risk; A. Payoff and Project Choice; B. Comparative Statics; C. Economic Significance: A Quantitative Example; 3. Tail Risk and the Initial Capital Required to Prevent Risk-shifting; IV. Tail Risk and the Unintended Effects of Higher Capital; A. Payoffs and the Recapitalization Decision; 4. Bank's Recapitalization Decision and Payoffs; B. Project Choice; 5. Bank's Project Choice; C. Comparative Statics |
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6a. Bank's Project Choice When the Risky Project has a Heavier Left Tail. Case 16b. Bank's Project Choice When the Risky Project has a Heavier Left Tail. Case 2; V. Bank Capital Choices and Optimal Capital Regulation; VI. Conclusion; 1. Proofs; 2. Extensions; References; Footnotes |
| Summary |
The paper studies risk mitigation associated with capital regulation, in a context where banks may choose tail risk asserts. We show that this undermines the traditional result that high capital reduces excess risk-taking driven by limited liability. Moreover, higher capital may have an unintended effect of enabling banks to take more tail risk without the fear of breaching the minimal capital ratio in non-tail risky project realizations. The results are consistent with stylized facts about pre-crisis bank behavior, and suggest implications for the optimal design of capital regulation |
| Notes |
At head of title: Research Department |
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Title from PDF title page (IMF Web site, viewed October 7, 2011) |
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"August 2011." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Bank capital -- State supervision -- Econometric models
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Banks and banking -- State supervision -- Econometric models
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Financial risk management -- Econometric models
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ratnovski, Lev, author.
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Vlahu, Razvan E., 1977- author.
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International Monetary Fund. Research Department, issuing body.
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| ISBN |
1283567822 |
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9781283567824 |
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9781463900663 |
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146390066X |
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1462308260 |
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9781462308262 |
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1463901992 |
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9781463901998 |
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9786613880277 |
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6613880272 |
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1463900651 |
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9781463900656 |
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