Corrective regulation with imperfect instruments

Eduardo Davila and Ansgar Walther

No 2723, Working Paper Series from European Central Bank

Abstract: This paper studies optimal second-best corrective regulation, when some agents/activities cannot be perfectly regulated. We show that policy elasticities and Pigouvian wedges are sufficient statistics to characterize the marginal welfare impact of regulatory policies in a large class of environments. We show that a subset of policy elasticities, leakage elasticities, determine optimal second-best policy, and characterize the marginal value of relaxing regulatory constraints. We apply our results to scenarios with unregulated agents/activities, uniform regulation across agents/activities, and costly regulation. We illustrate our results in applications to financial regulation with environmental externalities, shadow banking, behavioral distortions, asset substitution, and fire sales. JEL Classification: H23, Q58, G28, D62

Keywords: corrective regulation; Pigouvian taxation; second-best policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-09
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Working Paper: Corrective Regulation with Imperfect Instruments (2021)
Working Paper: Corrective Regulation with Imperfect Instruments (2021)
Working Paper: Corrective Regulation with Imperfect Instruments (2021)
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