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price of deposit insurance (Freixas and Rochet, 2013), which both can be
hard to design. A second approach, suggested by Bolton etal. (2015), is to
adjust linearly equity- based pay to the credit risk of the rm. However,
Thanassoulis and Tanaka (2018) demonstrate that this scheme can be cir-
cumvented by the bank. The authors nd that correcting for the too big to
fail distortion can however be achieved by combining malus and clawback
with a link of the bank executive’s pay to the interest rate on debt, whereby
pay is reduced when the interest rate is high, and with restrictions on the
curvature of pay with respect to the bank’s market value. As the authors
underline, pay regulations would then need to be complemented by ac ...