• Incentive-Based Capital Requirements 

      Eufinger, Christian; Gill, Andrej (2018-05-02)
      This paper proposes a new regulatory approach that implements capital requirements contingent on executive incentive schemes. We argue that excessive risk-taking in the financial sector originates from the shareholder moral ...
    • Interbank Networks and Backdoor Bailouts: Benefiting from other Banks' Government Guarantees 

      Eisert, Tim; Eufinger, Christian (2018-05-02)
      This paper explains why banks derive a benefit from being highly interconnected. We show that when banks are protected by government guarantees they can significantly increase their expected returns by channeling funds ...
    • Whatever it Takes: The Real Effects of Unconventional Monetary Policy 

      Acharya, Viral; Eisert, Tim; Eufinger, Christian; Hirsch, Christian (2017-04-11)
      Launched in Summer 2012, the European Central Bank (ECB)’s Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT) program indirectly recapitalized European banks through its positive impact on periphery sovereign bonds. However, the stability ...