van Wijnbergen, Sweder; Dimitrov, Daniël - 2023
We address the problem of regulating the size of banks' macroprudential capital buffers by using market-based estimates … systemic banks. First, a Distance-to-Default type measure relates a bank's default risk to its capital requirements. Second, a … correlation structure in the default dependencies between banks is estimated from co-movements in the single-name CDS spreads of …