Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/154074 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 1641
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
The regulatory use of banks' internal models aims at making capital requirements more accurate and reducing regulatory arbitrage, but may also give banks incentives to choose their risk models strategically. Current policy answers to this problem include the use of risk-weight floors and leverage ratios. I show that banks for which those are binding reduce their credit supply, which drives interest rates up, invites other banks to adopt optimistic models and possibly increases aggregate risk in the banking sector. Instead, the strategic use of risk models can be avoided by imposing penalties on banks with low risk-weights when they suffer abnormal losses or bailing out defaulting banks that truthfully reported high risk measures. If such selective bail-outs are not desirable, second-best capital requirements still rely on internal models, but less than in the first-best.
Subjects: 
Basel risk-weights
internal risk models
leverage ratio
tail risk
JEL: 
D82
D84
G21
G32
G38
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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