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Countercyclical Capital Regime – A Proposed Design and Empirical Evaluation

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  • Scott Smith

    (Federal Housing Finance Agency)

  • Jesse Weiher

    (Federal Housing Finance Agency)

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Motivated by the Great Recession in 2008, countercyclical capital regimes are now being considered by financial regulators. This paper provides a methodology on structuring a countercyclical capital requirement to achieve the goal of determining, at the time of acquisition, an amount of capital sufficient to survive a plausible but worst case stress period, in essence to fully capitalize the asset at acquisition.

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  • Scott Smith & Jesse Weiher, 2012. "Countercyclical Capital Regime – A Proposed Design and Empirical Evaluation," FHFA Staff Working Papers 12-02, Federal Housing Finance Agency.
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