Incentive-Based Capital Requirements

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Eufinger, Christian; Gill, Andrej
• 署名单位: University of Navarra; IESE Business School; Goethe University Frankfurt
• 刊物名称: MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0025-1909
• DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2016.2549
• 发表日期: 2017
• 页码: 4101-4113
• 关键词: CAPITAL REGULATION; COMPENSATION; leverage; RISK

摘要

This paper proposes a new regulatory approach that implements capital requirements contingent on executive incentive schemes. We argue that excessive risk taking in the financial sector originates from the shareholder moral hazard created by government guarantees rather than from corporate governance failures within banks. The idea behind the proposed regulatory approach is thus that the more the compensation structure decouples the interests of bank managers from those of shareholders by curbing risk-taking incentives, the higher the leverage the bank is permitted to take on. Consequently, the risk-shifting incentives caused by government guarantees and the risk-mitigating incentives created by the compensation structure offset each other such that the manager chooses the socially efficient investment policy.