Bank regulation, crisis risk, and investment incentives (with John Cochrane)
Standard analyses of optimal bank capital requirements used by policy makers effectively assume risk neutrality despite risk aversion being fundamental to the problem that they address. Moreover, by reducing the probability and severity of financial crises, greater bank capital affects stochastic discount factors and hence investment incentives. We show in a simple model how this effect is typically positive because investment incentives are usually stronger when crisis risk is reduced.
Date:
28 January 2020, 12:45 (Tuesday, 2nd week, Hilary 2020)
Venue:
Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details:
Butler Room
Speaker:
John Vickers (University of Oxford)
Organising department:
Department of Economics
Part of:
Economic Theory Workshop
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Melis Clark
