Capital Requirements and Claims Recovery: A New Perspective on Solvency Regulation

Cosimo Munari, Stefan Weber and Lutz Wilhelmy
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Cosimo Munari: University of Zurich - Department of Banking and Finance; Swiss Finance Institute
Stefan Weber: Leibniz Universität Hannover - House of Insurance
Lutz Wilhelmy: Swiss Re

No 21-58, Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper Series from Swiss Finance Institute

Abstract: Protection of creditors is a key objective of financial regulation. Where the protection needs are high, i.e., in banking and insurance, regulatory solvency requirements are an instrument to prevent that creditors incur losses on their claims. The current regulatory requirements based on Value at Risk and Average Value at Risk limit the probability of default of financial institutions, but fail to control the size of recovery on creditors' claims in the case of default. We resolve this failure by developing a novel risk measure, Recovery Value at Risk. Our conceptual approach can flexibly be extended and allows the construction of general recovery risk measures for various risk management purposes. By design, these risk measures control recovery on creditors' claims and integrate the protection needs of creditors into the incentive structure of the management. We provide detailed case studies and applications: We analyze how recovery risk measures react to the joint distributions of assets and liabilities on firms' balance sheets and compare the corresponding capital requirements with the current regulatory benchmarks based on Value at Risk and Average Value at Risk. We discuss how to calibrate recovery risk measures to historic regulatory standards. Finally, we show that recovery risk measures can be applied to performance-based management of business divisions of firms and that they allow for a tractable characterization of optimal tradeoffs between risk and return in the context of investment management.

Pages: 48 pages
Date: 2021-04
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