Authors:

  • Mark Roe

Excerpt

Containing Systemic Risk by Taxing Banks Properly. Mark Roe, November 20, 2017, Paper, "At the root of recurring bank crises are deeply-implanted incentives for banks and their executives to take systemically excessive risk. Since the 2008–2009 financial crisis, regulators have sought to strengthen the financial system by requiring more capital (which can absorb losses from risk-taking) and less risk-taking, principally via command-and-control rules. Yet bankers’ baseline incentives for system-degrading risk-taking remain intact." Link