Formulas or Supervision? Remarks on the Future of Regulatory Capital

The author focuses on the relative emphasis that the structure of regulatory capital places on formulas and on supervision. The two are not viewed as mutually exclusive, but as elements to which capital policy implicitly assigns relative weights. He shows that in U.S. regulatory practice, these weights have shifted over time, not always in the same direction.

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