Date Published | 4/12/2013 |
Author | Marja Hoek-Smit |
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A study by Oxford Economics, released by The Clearing
House, analyzed the potential effects of bank capital and liquidity
regulation under Basel III assumptions in five key studies – the IMF study of
Elliot et al. (2012), the study by the IIF (2011), the OECD study of Slovik
& Cournede (2011), the BIS/MAG studies (2011), and the Bank of England
study of Miles et al. (2011). Four of these studies were considered ‘official’
efforts (i.e. from international regulatory and financial organizations) while
the IIF study was from an organization representing global financial
institutions.
Oxford
focused on three key factors by which regulations could impact bank behavior
and the economy:
Oxford then sought to improve the assumptions of
these prior studies to align them with US economic and regulatory
realities.They estimate that a US
“worse case” scenario of higher capital and liquidity requirements could lead
to a drop in GDP of 2 percent and a loss of one million jobs over none years.
The Oxford analysis used the Oxford Global
Economics Model widely used to estimate future macro-economic effects of policy
and a loan pricing model commonly used in academic studies evaluating the
effects of capital regulations. It includes assumptions on cost of equity, cost
of debt, credit spreads, administration costs, baseline capital levels, size of
capital buffers, size of liquidity requirements, and length of transitional
period for phase-in.
Oxford concludes: “Our
study’s findings clearly demonstrate the need for any regulatory program to be
carefully structured to avoid any unintended consequences to economic growth
and employment”.
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