Bank Capital in the Short and in the Long Run

35 Pages Posted: 29 May 2019

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Caterina Mendicino

European Central Bank (ECB) - Directorate General Research

Kalin Nikolov

European Central Bank (ECB)

Javier Suarez

Centre for Monetary and Financial Studies (CEMFI); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)

Dominik Supera

Columbia Business School

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Date Written: May 24, 2019

Abstract

How far should capital requirements be raised in order to ensure a strong and resilient banking system without imposing undue costs on the real economy? Capital requirement increases make banks safer and are beneficial in the long run but also entail transition costs because their imposition reduces credit supply and aggregate demand on impact. In the baseline scenario of a quantitative macro-banking model, 25% of the long-run welfare gains are lost due to transitional costs. The strength of monetary policy accommodation and the degree of bank riskiness are key determinants of the trade-off between the short-run costs and long-run benefits from changes in capital requirements.

Keywords: macroprudential policy, default risk, effective lower bound, transitional dynamics

JEL Classification: E3, E44, G01, G21

Suggested Citation

Mendicino, Caterina and Nikolov, Kalin and Suarez, Javier and Supera, Dominik, Bank Capital in the Short and in the Long Run (May 24, 2019). ECB Working Paper No. 2286 (2019); ISBN 978-92-899-3548-7 , Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3394774 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3394774

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