We estimate the effect of changes in microprudential regulatory capital requirements on bank capital ratios and bank … lending. We do so by running panel regressions using a rich new data set, exploiting variation in individual bank capital … mostly recovers within three years. While estimated over a different policy regime and at the individual bank level, these …

the aggregate bank capital requirement during an economic upswing is associated with a reduction of lending, with the …

The regulation of bank capital to improve the resilience of the financial system and, related to this aim, as a means …, regulators have imposed time-varying, bank-specific minimum capital requirements since Basel I. Over the 1998-2007 period, UK …

This paper assesses how shocks to bank capital may influence a bank’s portfolio behaviour using novel evidence from a … UK bank panel data set from a period that pre-dates the recent financial crisis. Focusing on the behaviour of bank loans …, we extract the dynamic response of a bank to innovations in its capital and in its regulatory capital buffer. We find …

both interbank and non-bank lending in the United Kingdom. …

control the supply of bank credit. Regulatory efforts to influence the aggregate supply of credit may be thwarted to some … suited to address these questions, given its unique regulatory history (UK bank regulators imposed bank-specific and time …

We decompose gross cross-border bank-to-bank funding between arms-length (interbank) and related (intragroup) funding … cross-border bank-to-bank funding than others during the global financial crisis. …