Zweifel, Peter; Pfaff, Dieter; Kühn, Jochen - Institut für Betriebswirtschaftslehre, … - 2012
This paper contains a critique of solvency regulation such as imposed on banks by Basel I and II. Banks investment divisions seek to maximize the expected rate of return on risk-adjusted capital. For them, a higher solvency level lowers the cost of refinancing but ties costly capital. Sequential...