“…In this paper, we introduce the additional granular dimension of analyzing bucket reallocations, instead of looking at G-SIB designation as a 0/1 occasion. This enables us to carve out cases in which a marginally higher capital requirement 5 An extensive literature investigates the impact of being a TBTF bank (Boyd & Gertler, 1994;Kaufman, 2002Kaufman, , 2014Morrison, 2011;O'Hara & Shaw, 1990;Stern & Feldman, 2004) on their stock returns (Abreu & Gulamhussen, 2013;Bongini et al, 2015;Demirgüç-Kunt & Huizinga, 2013;Kabir & Hassan, 2005;Kleinow et al, 2014;Moenninghoff et al, 2015), business models (Afonso et al, 2014;Favara et al, 2021;Oliveira et al, 2015;Violon et al, 2020), mergers and acquisitions (Brewer & Jagtiani, 2013;Penas & Unal, 2004) or credit risk pricing (more below), whereas a parallel strand of literature analyze adverse incentives due to related government guarantees (Acharya et al, 2016(Acharya et al, , 2022Balasubramnian & Cyree, 2014;Flannery & Sorescu, 1996;Freixas et al, 2004;Gropp et al, 2014;Marques et al, 2013;Zhao, 2018). 6 See especially Blanco et al (2005), Gehde-Trapp et al (2015, Longstaff et al (2005) and Norden and Weber (2009).…”