The Wall Street Journal that capital buffer regulations may not be enough to stabilize banks in the long term, according to a paper co-authored by Assistant Professor of Economics Patrick van Horn. The paper, which examined banks鈥� behavior before the Depression and the Great Recession, argued that countercyclical capital buffers 鈥渕ay achieve their immediate goals of protecting core banks during crises but raises questions about whether they will contribute to overall financial stability.鈥�