It is not straightforward to assess capital (or solvency) and liquidity requirements
from an economic point of view, given the multiplicity of channels through which
they operate. On the one hand, they provide incentives to shareholders to better
monitor managers, which reduce moral hazard (Chapter 1), and hence appear as
instruments acting on incentives (Chapter 4). On the other hand, they are nan-
cial constraints (Chapter 5), imposed onto regulated nancial institutions in order
to limit nancial fragility (Chapter 1). In addition, they appear as management
standards for individual institutions, taking the overall economic environment as
given. This corresponds to the microprudential approach, which is essential but
needs to be complement ...