Martynova, Natalya; Perotti, Enrico C.; Suárez, Javier - 2020
recapitalization. Supervisory forbearance emerges because political and fiscal costs undermine supervisors' commitment to intervene … decisions become strategic complements, producing equilibria with extremely high forbearance and high systemic costs …. Anticipating forbearance in response to diffuse undercapitalization, banks may ex ante choose more correlated risks, a form of …