Regulating Asset Price Risk

11 Pages Posted: 17 Feb 2011 Last revised: 23 Feb 2011

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Philippe Bacchetta

University of Lausanne; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); Swiss Finance Institute

Cédric Tille

Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (HEI)

Eric van Wincoop

University of Virginia - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Date Written: January 1, 2011

Abstract

There has been a long debate about whether speculators are stabilizing or not. We consider a model where speculators have a stabilizing role in normal times, but may also provoke large risk panics. The very feature that makes arbitrageurs liquidity providers in normal times, namely their tolerance of risk, enables a large increase in asset price risk during a financial panic. We show that a policy that discourages balance sheet risk reduces the magnitude of financial panics, as well as asset price risk in both normal and panic states.

Keywords: Asset Pricing, Risk Management, Leverage

JEL Classification: E44, G11, G18

Suggested Citation

Bacchetta, Philippe and Tille, Cedric and van Wincoop, Eric, Regulating Asset Price Risk (January 1, 2011). Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 11-04, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1762761 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1762761

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