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Capital adequacy tests and limited liability of financial institutions


Koch-Medina, Pablo; Moreno-Bromberg, Santiago; Munari, Cosimo (2015). Capital adequacy tests and limited liability of financial institutions. Journal of Banking and Finance, 51:93-102.

Abstract

The theory of acceptance sets and their associated risk measures plays a key role in the design of capital adequacy tests. The objective of this paper is to investigate the class of surplus-invariant acceptance sets. We argue that surplus invariance is a reasonable requirement from a regulatory perspective, since the corresponding capital adequacy tests do not depend on the surplus of a financial institution, which benefits exclusively its shareholders, but only on the default profile, which affects its liability holders. We provide a detailed analysis of surplus-invariant acceptance sets and their associated risk measures and we discuss the link with loss-based and excess-invariant risk measures, recently studied by Cont et al. (2013) and by Staum (2013), respectively.

Abstract

The theory of acceptance sets and their associated risk measures plays a key role in the design of capital adequacy tests. The objective of this paper is to investigate the class of surplus-invariant acceptance sets. We argue that surplus invariance is a reasonable requirement from a regulatory perspective, since the corresponding capital adequacy tests do not depend on the surplus of a financial institution, which benefits exclusively its shareholders, but only on the default profile, which affects its liability holders. We provide a detailed analysis of surplus-invariant acceptance sets and their associated risk measures and we discuss the link with loss-based and excess-invariant risk measures, recently studied by Cont et al. (2013) and by Staum (2013), respectively.

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:03 Faculty of Economics > Department of Banking and Finance
Dewey Decimal Classification:330 Economics
Scopus Subject Areas:Social Sciences & Humanities > Finance
Social Sciences & Humanities > Economics and Econometrics
Language:English
Date:2015
Deposited On:27 Nov 2015 09:13
Last Modified:26 Jan 2022 07:08
Publisher:Elsevier
ISSN:0378-4266
OA Status:Closed
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbankfin.2014.11.002
Related URLs:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbankfin.2014.11.002
Other Identification Number:merlin-id:11660
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