2019
DOI: 10.1093/rfs/hhz117
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Bank Regulation under Fire Sale Externalities

Abstract: We examine the optimal design of and interaction between capital and liquidity regulations. Banks, not internalizing fire sale externalities, overinvest in risky assets and underinvest in liquid assets in the competitive equilibrium. Capital requirements can alleviate the inefficiency, but banks respond by decreasing their liquidity ratios. When capital requirements are the only available tool, the regulator tightens them to offset banks’ lower liquidity ratios, leading to fewer risky assets and less liquidity… Show more

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“…(2018) find that U.S. banks with assets less than USD1 billion treated liquidity and capital as substitutes in response to negative capital shocks. In contrast, Faia (2018) and Kara and Ozsoy (2019) conclude that they are complementary. The former explain that equity requirements reduce banks' solvency region, while liquidity coverage ratios reduce the illiquidity region.…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…(2018) find that U.S. banks with assets less than USD1 billion treated liquidity and capital as substitutes in response to negative capital shocks. In contrast, Faia (2018) and Kara and Ozsoy (2019) conclude that they are complementary. The former explain that equity requirements reduce banks' solvency region, while liquidity coverage ratios reduce the illiquidity region.…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…The objectives of the capital reforms are to increase quality, consistency, and the transparency of capital, so as to enhance the risk coverage framework and to reduce systemic and pro-cyclical risk. Proposing a more sensitive methodology to the extreme and unanticipated fluctuations in the market, the Basel III regulations will thus help to improve management and governance, and it will strengthen banks' transparency and disclosures (BCBS, 2015) and improve financial stability, and allow for more investment in risky assets (Kara & Ozsoy, 2020).…”
Section: Institutional Setting: Basel III Pillar Requirementsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…He, Khang, and Krishnamurthy Introducing the importance of the Basel III committee rules regulating the liquidity of commercial banks in the crisis. Find that despite its importance there is no consensus on how to measure liquidity [9]. S. Fleming [4] notes that across its many liquidity facilities, the Federal Reserve provided over $1.5 trillion of liquidity support during the crisis [5].…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%