Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers
Creation-Date: 2018-02-28
Revision-Date: 2019-10-11
Number: 18-016/IV
Author-Name: Robin Dottling
Author-Email: r.j.doettling@uva.nl
Author-Workplace-Name: University of Amsterdam
Title: Bank Capital Regulation in a Zero Interest Environment
Abstract: How do near-zero interest rates affect optimal bank capital regulation and risk- taking? I study this question in a dynamic model, in which forward-looking banks compete imperfectly for deposit funding, but households do not accept negative deposit rates. When deposit rates are constrained by the zero lower bound (ZLB), tight capital requirements disproportionately hurt franchise values and become less effective in curbing excessive risk-taking. As a result, optimal dynamic capital requirements vary with the level of interest rates if the ZLB binds occasionally. Higher inflation and unconventional monetary policy can alleviate the problem, but their overall welfare effects are ambiguous.
Classification-JEL: G21; G28; E43
Keywords: Zero lower bound; search for yield; capital regulation; bank competition; risk shifting; franchise value
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