Value-at-risk capital requirement regulation, risk taking and asset allocation: a mean–variance analysis

Submitted on 7th September 2017

In this study, the mean–variance framework is employed to analyse the impact of the Basel value-at-risk (VaR) market risk regulation on the institution's optimal investment policy, the stockholders’ welfare, as well as the tendency of the institution to change the risk profile of the held portfolio. It is shown that with the VaR regulation, the institution faces a new regulated capital market line, which induces resource allocation distortion in the economy. Surprisingly, only when a riskless asset is available does VaR regulation induce the institution to reduce risk. Otherwise, the regulation may induce higher risk, accompanied by asset allocation distortion. On the positive side, the regulation implies an upper bound on the risk the institution takes and it never induces the firm to select an inefficient portfolio. Moreover, when the riskless asset is available, tightening the regulation always increases the amount of maintained eligible capital and decreases risk.

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Source
The European Journal of Finance
Length of Resource
27 pages
Author
Guy Kaplanski, Haim Levy
Date Published
Publication Type
article
Resource Type
academic