# Complementarity

`kaal:entity:complementarity`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 3 claims that carry the concept tag `complementarity`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

3 claims across 3 works, 2012 to 2026.

**2012**

- [1998455-014](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/1998455-014) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Contingent capital by itself, without additional measures and supplemental corporate governance improvements, may not prevent firm failure; its real potential unfolds only when it supplements other corporate governance improvements.
  > In sum, contingent capital without additional measures and supplemental corporate governance improvements may not pre- vent firm failure.115 The real potential of contingent capital could unfold if it would be used to supplement other corporate govern- ance improvements.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Initial Reflections on the Possible Application of Contingent Capital in Corporate Governance (2012). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1998455
- [2061166-036](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2061166-036) [design/argued] -- Using contingent capital as a preventative tool does not foreclose the statutory core power or the debt write-down tool within resolution; if early contractual write-down and conversion fail, authorities remain free to intervene and impose a haircut on shareholders, debt investors and other private parties.
  > Contingent capital as a preventative tool would not impede the statutory core power or debt write-down tool of bail-inables within resolution.
  Christoph K. Henkel, Wulf A. Kaal, Contingent Capital in European Union Bank Restructuring (2012). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2061166

**2026**

- [6244278-029](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6244278-029) [condition/argued] -- The complementarity of capability and alignment is a structural property of the reputation mechanism rather than an assumption about agent preferences, because the cross-partial derivative of agent utility with respect to capability and alignment is positive.
  > This supermodularity is the formal condition under which capability and alignment are complements, and it is a structural property of the reputation mechanism, not an assumption about agent preferences or values.
  Wulf A. Kaal, AI's Mother's Instinct Engineered Consequence Emergent Ethics and the Institutional Trajectory Toward Agentic Alignment (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6244278

## Verify

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    curl -s https://wulfkaal.github.io/entities/complementarity.md | sha256sum

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