IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/fip/fedgfe/2025-29.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Effect of the GSIB surcharge on the systemic risk posed by the activities of GSIBs

Author

Abstract

This study assesses whether the introduction of the GSIB surcharge requirement resulted in GSIBs reducing the systemic risk posed by their activities. We find limited evidence of GSIBs managing their activities to avoid increases in their surcharges. For a sample of international banks, proximity to surcharge thresholds is associated to a decrease in the growth of intra-financial system liabilities, underwriting activities, and holdings of trading and available-for-sale securities. In the case of US GSIBs and the method 2 GSIB surcharge, we find some association between proximity to surcharge thresholds and a decrease in the growth of trading and available-for-sale securities and short-term wholesale funding.

Suggested Citation

  • Marco Migueis & Sydney Peirce, 2025. "Effect of the GSIB surcharge on the systemic risk posed by the activities of GSIBs," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2025-029, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
    • Handle: RePEc:fip:fedgfe:2025-29
    DOI: 10.17016/FEDS.2025.029
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/feds/files/2025029pap.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.17016/FEDS.2025.029?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Degryse, Hans & Mariathasan, Mike & Tang, Hien T., 2023. "GSIB status and corporate lending," Journal of Corporate Finance, Elsevier, vol. 80(C).
    2. Gündüz, Yalin, 2020. "The market impact of systemic risk capital surcharges," Discussion Papers 09/2020, Deutsche Bundesbank.
    3. Christian Brownlees & Robert F. Engle, 2017. "SRISK: A Conditional Capital Shortfall Measure of Systemic Risk," The Review of Financial Studies, Society for Financial Studies, vol. 30(1), pages 48-79.
    4. Poledna, Sebastian & Bochmann, Olaf & Thurner, Stefan, 2017. "Basel III capital surcharges for G-SIBs are far less effective in managing systemic risk in comparison to network-based, systemic risk-dependent financial transaction taxes," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Elsevier, vol. 77(C), pages 230-246.
    5. Favara, Giovanni & Ivanov, Ivan & Rezende, Marcelo, 2021. "GSIB surcharges and bank lending: Evidence from US corporate loan data," Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 142(3), pages 1426-1443.
    6. Behn, Markus & Schramm, Alexander, 2021. "The impact of G-SIB identification on bank lending: Evidence from syndicated loans," Journal of Financial Stability, Elsevier, vol. 57(C).
    7. Andrew Hawley & Marco Migueis, 2021. "Measuring the systemic importance of large US banks," FEDS Notes 2021-09-30, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
    8. Tirupam Goel & Ulf Lewrick & Aakriti Mathur, 2019. "Playing it safe: global systemically important banks after the crisis," BIS Quarterly Review, Bank for International Settlements, September.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Degryse, Hans & Mariathasan, Mike & Tang, Hien T., 2023. "GSIB status and corporate lending," Journal of Corporate Finance, Elsevier, vol. 80(C).
    2. Dimitrov, Daniel & van Wijnbergen, Sweder, 2023. "Macroprudential Regulation: A Risk Management Approach," CEPR Discussion Papers 17846, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    3. Bo Zhu & Xin Hu & Yuanyue Deng & Renda Lin, 2023. "Systemic risk prevention policies targeting systemically important banks: Does clustering pattern matter?," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 18(4), pages 1-27, April.
    4. Jean-Baptiste Hasse, 2022. "Systemic risk: a network approach," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 63(1), pages 313-344, July.
    5. Jared Berry & Akber Khan & Marcelo Rezende, 2025. "How Do Global Systemically Important Banks Lower Capital Surcharges?," Journal of Financial Services Research, Springer;Western Finance Association, vol. 67(3), pages 73-99, June.
    6. Behn, Markus & Forletta, Marco & Reghezza, Alessio, 2024. "Buying insurance at low economic cost – the effects of bank capital buffer increases since the pandemic," Working Paper Series 2951, European Central Bank.
    7. Ponte Marques, Aurea & Vila Martín, Diego & Salleo, Carmelo & Cappelletti, Giuseppe, 2025. "Macroprudential policy spillovers in international banking groups. Beggar-thy-neighbour and the role of internal capital markets," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 171(C).
    8. Chao, Wang & Jing, Ma & Xiaoxing, Liu, 2023. "Optimizing systemic risk through credit network reconstruction," Emerging Markets Review, Elsevier, vol. 57(C).
    9. Alper, Koray & Baskaya, Soner & Shi, Shuren, 2025. "How do macroprudential policies affect corporate investment? Insights from EIBIS data," EIB Working Papers 2025/02, European Investment Bank (EIB).
    10. Abduraimova, Kumushoy, 2022. "Contagion and tail risk in complex financial networks," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 143(C).
    11. Gerardo Manzo & Antonio Picca, 2020. "The Impact of Sovereign Shocks," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 66(7), pages 3113-3132, July.
    12. Mikhail Stolbov & Maria Shchepeleva, 2022. "In Search of Global Determinants of National Credit-to-GDP Gaps," Risks, MDPI, vol. 10(12), pages 1-22, December.
    13. Hamdi Jbir & Cornel Oros & Alexandra Popescu, 2024. "Macroprudential policy and financial system stability: an aggregate study," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 66(5), pages 1941-1973, May.
    14. Yang, Xite & Zhang, Qin & Liu, Haiyue & Liu, Zihan & Tao, Qiufan & Lai, Yongzeng & Huang, Linya, 2024. "Economic policy uncertainty, macroeconomic shocks, and systemic risk: Evidence from China," The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 69(PA).
    15. Roland Füss & Daniel Ruf, 2018. "Office Market Interconnectedness and Systemic Risk Exposure," Working Papers on Finance 1830, University of St. Gallen, School of Finance.
    16. Xisong Jin, 2018. "How much does book value data tell us about systemic risk and its interactions with the macroeconomy? A Luxembourg empirical evaluation," BCL working papers 118, Central Bank of Luxembourg.
    17. Dissem, Sonia & Lobez, Frederic, 2020. "Correlation between the 2014 EU-wide stress tests and the market-based measures of systemic risk," Research in International Business and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 51(C).
    18. Algieri, Bernardina & Leccadito, Arturo, 2017. "Assessing contagion risk from energy and non-energy commodity markets," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 62(C), pages 312-322.
    19. Matteo Foglia & Eliana Angelini, 2024. "A Riskmas Carol," Global Business Review, International Management Institute, vol. 25(2_suppl), pages 121-137, April.
    20. Schwaab, Bernd, 2017. "Bank business models at negative interest rates," Research Bulletin, European Central Bank, vol. 40.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Bank capital requirements; Banking regulation; GSIB surcharge; Systemic risk;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • G01 - Financial Economics - - General - - - Financial Crises
    • G18 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Government Policy and Regulation
    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    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:fip:fedgfe:2025-29. 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.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with 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: Ryan Wolfslayer ; Keisha Fournillier (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/frbgvus.html .

    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.