The Long-Term Effects of Capital Requirements

Gianni De Nicolo, Nataliya Klimenko, Sebastian Pfeil and Jean Rochet
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Gianni De Nicolo: Johns Hopkins University - Carey Business School; CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute)
Nataliya Klimenko: University of Zurich

No 21-52, Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper Series from Swiss Finance Institute

Abstract: We build a stylized dynamic general equilibrium model with financial frictions to analyze costs and benefits of capital requirements in the short-term and long-term. We show that since increasing capital requirements limits the aggregate loan supply, the equilibrium loan rate spread increases, which raises bank profitability and the market-to-book value of bank capital. Hence, banks build up larger capital buffers which (i) lowers the public losses in case of a systemic crisis and (ii) restores the banking sector’s lending capacity after the short-term credit crunch induced by tighter regulation. We confirm our model’s dynamic implications in a panel VAR estimation, which suggests that bank lending has even increased in the long-run after the implementation of Basel III capital regulation.

Keywords: Bank capital requirements; credit crunch; systemic risk (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E21 E32 F44 G21 G28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 50 pages
Date: 2021-06
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