Do Labyrinthine Legal Limits on Leverage Lessen the Likelihood of Losses? An Analytical Framework

A common theme in the regulation of financial institutions and transactions is leverage constraints. Although such constraints are implemented in various ways—from minimum net capital rules to margin requirements to credit limits—the basic motivation is the same: to limit the potential losses of cer...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lo, Andrew W., Brennan, Thomas J.
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: University of Texas School of Law 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/75358
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2944-7773