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The Leverage Ratio as a Bank Discipline Device

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  • Clovis Rugemintwari

    (LAPE - Laboratoire d'Analyse et de Prospective Economique - GIO - Gouvernance des Institutions et des Organisations - UNILIM - Université de Limoges)

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This paper investigates bank portfolio composition under Basel II where the amount of required capital is determined by bank's own risk assessment. We particularly show that in presence of asymmetric information between the bank and the supervisor, it has incentives to understate its risk taking which could be curbed by the addition of the simple leverage ratio as suggested in Basel III.

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  • Clovis Rugemintwari, 2011. "The Leverage Ratio as a Bank Discipline Device," Post-Print hal-00785487, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-00785487
    DOI: 10.3917/reco.623.0479
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