Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/141855 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 5878
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We study the efficiency of banking regulation under financial integration. Banks freely choose the jurisdiction where to locate their activities and have private information about their efficiency level. Regulators non-cooperatively offer any regulatory contract that satisfies information and participation constraints of banks. We show that the unique Nash equilibrium of the regulatory game is a simple pooling contract: financial integration is characterized by the inability for regulators to discriminate between banks with different efficiency levels. This result is driven by the endogenous restriction caused by regulatory arbitrage on the capacity of regulators to use several regulatory instruments.
Subjects: 
regulatory arbitrage
banking regulation
regulatory competition
financial integration
asymmetric information
JEL: 
C72
D82
G21
G28
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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