Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/60808 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Staff Report No. 492
Publisher: 
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York, NY
Abstract: 
We construct a model in which bank capital regulation and financial innovation interact. Innovation takes the form of pooling and tranching of assets and the creation of separate structures with different seniority, different risk, and different capital charges, a process that captures some stylized features of structured finance. Regulation is motivated by the divergence of private and social interests in future profits. Capital regulation lowers bank profits and may induce banks to innovate in order to evade the regulation itself. We show that structured finance can improve welfare in some cases. However, innovation may also be adopted to avoid regulation, even in cases where it decreases welfare.
Subjects: 
bank regulation
financial innovation
structured finance
JEL: 
E58
G28
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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