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Reconsidering Bank Capital Regulation: A New Combination of Rules, Regulators, and Market Discipline

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  • Connel Fullenkamp
  • Ms. Celine Rochon

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Despite revisions to bank capital standards, fundamental shortcomings remain: the rules for setting capital requirements need to be simpler, and resolution should be an essential part of the capital requirement framework.We propose a new system of capital regulation that addresses these needs by making changes to all three pillars of bank regulation: only common equity should be recognized as capital for regulatory purposes, and risk weighting of assets should be abandoned; capital requirements should be assigned on an institution-by-institution basis according to a regulatory (s,S) approach developed in the paper; a standard for prompt, corrective action is incorporated into the (s,S) approach.

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  • Connel Fullenkamp & Ms. Celine Rochon, 2014. "Reconsidering Bank Capital Regulation: A New Combination of Rules, Regulators, and Market Discipline," IMF Working Papers 2014/169, International Monetary Fund.
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