Regulating the Financial Cycle: An Integrated Approach with a Leverage Ratio

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We propose a regulatory approach for restricting debt financing as an amplification mechanism across the financial system. A small stylised model illustrates the trade-off between static and time varying limits on leverage in dampening the financial cycle. The policy section proposes its application to highly leveraged entities and activities across the financial system. Whereas the traditional view on regulation focuses on capital as a buffer against exogenous risks, our approach focuses instead on debt financing, endogenous feedback mechanisms and resource allocation. It explicitly addresses the boundary problem in entity-based financial regulation and provides a motivation for substantially lower levels of leverage – and thereby higher capital buffers – than in the traditional approach.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. 15-057/IV/DSF93

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Central Banks and Their Policies ; General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data) ; General Financial Markets: Government Policy and Regulation ; Financial Institutions and Services: General
• Subject: Financial cycle ; macroprudential regulation ; financial supervision ; (shadow) banking

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Schoenmaker, Dirk ; Wierts, Peter
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Tinbergen Institute
• (where): Amsterdam and Rotterdam
• (when): 2015

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/111738
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