Contingent Capital with a Capital-Ratio Trigger

Paul Glasserman () and Behzad Nouri ()
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Paul Glasserman: Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027
Behzad Nouri: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027

Management Science, 2012, vol. 58, issue 10, 1816-1833

Abstract: Contingent capital in the form of debt that converts to equity when a bank faces financial distress has been proposed as a mechanism to enhance financial stability and avoid costly government rescues. Specific proposals vary in their choice of conversion trigger and conversion mechanism. We analyze the case of contingent capital with a capital-ratio trigger and partial and ongoing conversion. The capital ratio we use is based on accounting or book values to approximate the regulatory ratios that determine capital requirements for banks. The conversion process is partial and ongoing in the sense that each time a bank's capital ratio reaches the minimum threshold, just enough debt is converted to equity to meet the capital requirement, so long as the contingent capital has not been depleted. We derive closed-form expressions for the market value of such securities when the firm's asset value is modeled as geometric Brownian motion, and from these we get formulas for the fair yield spread on the convertible debt. A key step in the analysis is an explicit expression for the fraction of equity held by the original shareholders and the fraction held by converted investors in the contingent capital. This paper was accepted by Gérard P. Cachon, stochastic models and simulation.

Keywords: probability; diffusion; stochastic model applications; finance; asset pricing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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