IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/cpr/ceprdp/16148.html

The Cross-border Effects of Bank Capital Regulation

Author

Listed:
  • Bahaj, Saleem
  • Malherbe, Frédéric

Abstract

We propose a model for studying the international collaboration of bank capital regulation under the principle of reciprocity. We show that such a regime makes countries strategically compete for scarce bank equity capital. Raising capital requirements in a country may generate bank capital outflows as well as inflows. We pin down the condition for the sign of the capital flow and the associated externality, and highlight the implications for macroprudential regulation. Compared to full collaboration, individual countries are likely to set Basel III's Counter-Cyclical Capital Buffer too high in normal times, and too low in bad times.

Suggested Citation

  • Bahaj, Saleem & Malherbe, Frédéric, 2021. "The Cross-border Effects of Bank Capital Regulation," CEPR Discussion Papers 16148, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    • Handle: RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:16148
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://cepr.org/publications/DP16148
    Download Restriction: CEPR Discussion Papers are free to download for our researchers, subscribers and members. If you fall into one of these categories but have trouble downloading our papers, please contact us at subscribers@cepr.org
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to look for a different version below or

    for a different version of it.

    Other versions of this item:

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. is not listed on IDEAS
    2. Carlos Cañón Salazar & Misa Tanaka & John Thanassoulis, 2024. "Regulatory stringency as a competitive tool for financial centres," Bank of England working papers 1098, Bank of England.
    3. Maximiliano San Millán, 2025. "The Cross Border Effects of Bank Capital Regulation in General Equilibrium," Working Papers Central Bank of Chile 1046, Central Bank of Chile.

    More about this item

    JEL classification:

    • G15 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - International Financial Markets
    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
    • G28 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Government Policy and Regulation

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:16148. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: the person in charge (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.cepr.org .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.