Market-Based Bank Capital Regulation
Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 151
Nuffield College Oxford, Economics Working Paper 2013-W12
68 Pages Posted: 29 Aug 2013 Last revised: 10 Sep 2014
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Market-Based Bank Capital Regulation
Market-Based Bank Capital Regulation
Date Written: September 2013
Abstract
Today’s regulatory rules, especially the easily-manipulated measures of regulatory capital, have led to costly bank failures. We design a robust regulatory system such that (i) bank losses are credibly borne by the private sector (ii) systemically important institutions cannot collapse suddenly; (iii) bank investment is counter-cyclical; and (iv) regulatory actions depend upon market signals (because the simplicity and clarity of such rules prevents gaming by firms, and forbearance by regulators, as well as because of the efficiency role of prices). One key innovation is “ERNs” (equity recourse notes -- superficially similar to, but importantly distinct from, “cocos”) which gradually “bail in” equity when needed. Importantly, although our system uses market information, it does not rely on markets being “right.”
Keywords: bail-in, bank, bank capital, bank crisis, capital requirements, contingent capital, contingent convertible bond, debt overhang, deposit insurance, living wills, regulatory capital, regulatory forbearance, SIFI, systemically important financial institution, too-big-to-fail
JEL Classification: G21, G10, G28, G32
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