Browsing by Author "Keregero, Chirongo Moses"

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    The application of macroprudential capital requirements in managing systemic risk
    (Hindawi, 2018) Fan, Hong; Keregero, Chirongo Moses; Gao, Qianqian
    When setting banks regulatory capital requirement based on their contribution to the overall risk of the banking system we need to consider that the risk of the banking system as well as each banks risk contribution changes once bank equity capital gets redistributed. Terefore the present paper provides a theoretical framework to manage the systemic risk of the banking system in Nigeria based on macroprudential capital requirements, which requires banks to hold capital that is proportional to their contribution to systemic risk. Using a sample of 10 Nigerian banks, we reallocate capital in the system based on two scenarios;firstly in the situation where the system shocks do not exist in the system, we fnd that almost all banks appear to hold more capital; secondly, we also consider the situation where the system shocks exist in the system; we fnd that almost all banks tend to hold little capital on four risk allocation mechanisms. We further fnd that despite the heterogeneity in macroprudential capital requirements, all risk allocation mechanisms bring a substantial decrease in the systemic risk. Te risk allocation mechanism based on ΔCoVaR decreases the average default probability the most. Our results suggest that fnancial stability can be substantially improved by implementing macroprudential regulations for the banking system