As I've advocated, a similar systemic risk levy to finance a "resolution fund" is being considered in Congress as a way to internalize potential bailout costs stemming from too-big-to-fail institutions.
Risk-based levies, taking into account companies' credit ratings and the funding of their pension schemes, would be better, rewarding firms with strong schemes and penalising those with poorly funded ones.
However, a risk-based levy might prove an intolerable burden for an already-troubled bank.Over at the PBGC, the 2007 accounts appeared to reveal a healthier position, with a reduced deficit of $13 billion.
Under its proposals, a weak company with a poorly funded plan could pay 50 times as much in risk-based levy as a strong company with a much-better-funded plan.
Acknowledging this, the PPF will set a cap on the risk-based levy as a share of individual schemes' liabilities.The big worry is that the PPF is being asked to do too much with too little.
Deficits are larger, she says, if you use adjusted government-bond yields as the discount rate.These deficits are bad for the PPF, the companies that pay it an annual risk-based levy and the taxpayers who would have to come up with the difference should the PPF run out.
Sheila Bair, chairman of the FDIC, argued that it should be structured like an insurance program, and that to be credible the insurance should be funded in advance by risk-based levies on all large financial firms not just survivors.
He said the Conservatives seemed "indifferent" to the risk that a unilateral levy could lead to British jobs being lost.
However, several Black-Scholes models proposed in recent years, such as the model found in [8, 9], have allowed the risk assets driven by levy processes.
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