setup in the United States underscore the importance of enhancing systemic risk oversight and building effective …

.S. banking landscape, banking system assets represent only about 22 percent of total financial system assets. The systemic risk …

The paper studies risk mitigation associated with capital regulation, in a context where banks may choose tail risk … assets. We show that this undermines the traditional result that higher capital reduces excess risk-taking driven by limited … liability. Moreover, higher capital may have an unintended e¤ect of enabling banks to take more tail risk without the fear of …