Should banks be worried about dividend restrictions? / by Josef Schroth. : FB3-5/2023-49E-PDF

"In the model in this paper, banks are rationally forward-looking and thus ignore short-lived reductions in capital requirements. During a financial crisis, a regulator would want to first impose drastic dividend restrictions to force banks to rebuild capital, but also would want to keep capital requirements low for a sufficiently long time afterwards. However, such a policy is not time-consistent. Once banks are sufficiently re-capitalized, the regulator would be tempted to immediately raise capital requirements all the way to pre-crisis levels. Optimal time-consistent capital regulation requires that bank capital is rebuilt gradually during financial crises. In particular, banks must be able to pay dividends even when bank equity is still significantly below pre-crisis levels"--Abstract, page 2.

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Ministère/Organisme Bank of Canada, issuing body.
Titre Should banks be worried about dividend restrictions? / by Josef Schroth.
Titre de la série Staff working paper = Document de travail du personnel, 1701-9397 ; 2023-49
Type de publication Série - Voir l'enregistrement principal
Langue [Anglais]
Format Électronique
Document électronique
Note(s) "September 27, 2023."
Cover title.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 21-23).
Includes abstracts in English and French.
Information sur la publication [Ottawa] : Bank of Canada = Banque du Canada, 2023.
©2023
Auteur / Contributeur Schroth, Josef, author.
Description 1 online resource (24 pages) : graphs.
Numéro de catalogue
  • FB3-5/2023-49E-PDF
Descripteurs Dividend reinvestment.
Business cycles -- Econometric models.
Financial risk management.
Dividendes -- Réinvestissement.
Cycles économiques -- Modèles économétriques.
Finances -- Gestion du risque.
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