Bank Capital Buffers in a Dynamic Model
Financial Management (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1755053x)
60 Pages Posted: 2 Dec 2014 Last revised: 30 Aug 2018
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Bank Capital Buffers in a Dynamic Model
Bank Capital Buffers in a Dynamic Model
A Dynamic Model of Banking with Uninsurable Risks and Regulatory Constraints
Date Written: August 22, 2018
Abstract
We estimate a dynamic structural banking model to examine the interaction between risk-weighted capital adequacy and unweighted leverage requirements, their differential impact on bank lending, and equity buffer accumulation in excess of regulatory minima. Tighter risk-weighted capital requirements reduce loan supply and lead to an endogenous fall in bank profitability, reducing bank incentives to accumulate equity buffers and, therefore, increasing the incidence of bank failure. Tighter leverage requirements, on the other hand, increase lending, preserve bank charter value and incentives to accumulate equity buffers, therefore leading to lower bank failure rates.
Keywords: Banking, Equity Buffers, Regulatory Interactions, Dynamic Models
JEL Classification: E44, G21, G38
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