interconnectedness on the banks' failure probability can be alleviated if bank capital regulation is properly designed. This paper … supports the conclusion in Allen and Gale (2000) that a complete financial system in which each bank is connected to all the …

We survey 149 leading academic researchers on bank capital regulation. The median (average) respondent prefers a 10 … strongly an expert believes that higher capital requirements would increase the cost of bank lending. …

disciplining banks. Under our proposal, investors buy the subdebt of a bank only if they receive favourable information about the … bank, and the bank is subject to a regulatory examination if it fails to issue subdebt. By forcing banks to be examined …-destroying actions to benefit themselves, but may also encourage banks to lower asset risk. It shows that subdebt regulation and bank …

We investigate the effects of credit ratings-contingent financial regulation on foreign bank lending behavior. We … examine the sensitivity of international bank flows to debtor countries' sovereign credit rating changes before and after the …

​We investigate the effects of credit ratings-contingent financial regulation on foreign bank lending behavior. We … examine the sensitivity of international bank flows to debtor countries' sovereign credit rating changes before and after the …

We investigate the effects of credit ratings-contingent financial regulation on foreign bank lending behavior. We … examine the sensitivity of international bank flows to debtor countries' sovereign credit rating changes before and after the …