Market-Based Regulation and the Informational Content of Prices
52 Pages Posted: 17 Dec 2006
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Market-Based Regulation and the Informational Content of Prices
Market-Based Regulation and the Informational Content of Prices
Date Written: December 2006
Abstract
Various laws and policy proposals call for regulators to make use of the information reflected in market prices. We focus on a leading example of such a proposal, namely that bank supervision should make use of the market prices of traded bank securities. We study the theoretical underpinnings of this proposal in light of a key problem: if the regulator uses market prices, prices adjust to reflect this use and potentially become less revealing. We show that the feasibility of this proposal depends critically on the information gap between the market and the regulator. Thus, there is a strong complementarity between market information and the regulator's information, which suggests that regulators should not abandon other sources of information when learning from market prices. We demonstrate that the type of security being traded matters for the observed equilibrium outcome and discuss other policy measures that can increase the ability of regulators to make use of market information.
Keywords: Market-based regulation, Market-based intervention, Price informativeness, Bank supervision
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