This empirical analysis aims at assessing the effect of the economic climate and the intensity of capital utilisation … on companies’ capital retirement behaviour. It is conducted using individual company data, as well as original data on … database is, to our knowledge, unique for the empirical analysis of the intensity of capital utilisation on firms’ capital …

This paper examines the sensitivity of non-financial corporate lending to banks' capital ratio and their supervisory … capital requirements. We use a unique database for the French banking sector between 2003 and 2011 combining confidential bank …-level Bank Lending Survey answers with the discretionary capital requirements set by the supervisory authority. We find that on …

costs for banks of the increase in capital requirements under Basel III. We bring empirical evidence on this issue by …-2012, controlling for risk-taking as well as a range of variables including the business model. We find that an increase in capital … significant increase in other business line activities. Looking at revenue and cost components, the positive effect of capital on …

perfect capital markets on a large balanced panel data of 4025 french firms. First, the quadratic parameterization of …

This paper shows that, with pre-set price and capital decisions of firms facing uncertainty and credit rationing, price …, mark up and the expected degree of capacity utilization (resp. capital) increases (resp. decreases) with the firm internal …

This paper shows that, with pre-set price and capital decisions of firms facing uncertainty and credit rationing, price …, mark up and the expected degree of capacity utilization (resp. capital) increases (resp. decreases) with the firm internal …