requirements. It extends the Stiglitz-Weiss model of credit rationing to allow for bank default. Bank capital structure then …. Introducing bank financiers, the paper also shows that uninsured funding raises the sensitivity of rationing to capital …

In this study we disentangle two dimensions of banks' systemic risk: the level of bank tail risk and the linkage … between a bank's tail risk and severe shocks in the financial system. We employ a measure of the systemic risk of financial … bank characteristics are related to bank tail risk and systemic linkage. The interrelationship between bank characteristics …

This paper reviews studies exploring how higher bank capital requirements affect economic growth. There is little … evidence of a direct effect; research focuses on the indirect effects of capital requirements on credit supply, bank asset risk …, and cost of bank capital, which in turn can affect economic growth. Banks facing higher capital requirements can reduce …

interaction between politicy makers and pressure groups. The second half of the report is devoted to bank regulation. It is argued … effects of regulatory policies in the form of deposit insurance, capital requirements, bank monitoring, bank closure policy as …

This study aims at assessing empirically the determinants of changes in risk-weighted bank capital ratios in the 1990s … in Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, the UK and the US. Both bank-specific characteristics, factors at the banking … industry level and the degree of undercapitalization are found to be relevant for bank capital ratios. The results suggest that …

interaction between business cycles and bank behaviour over the past two decades for 26 industrial countries. As expected, profits …

banks. However if in extreme scenarios the LCR becomes a binding constraint, the interaction of bank behaviour with the …-testing model, which takes into account the impact of bank reactions on second round feedback effects. We show that a flexible …

This paper gives an overview of the recent literature on bank business models, structured along what we deem to be the … supervision towards the analysis of bank business models with a sound economic basis. The bottom-line for supervisors - in our … view - is that it is essential to understand where the profit comes from and what risks the bank or the banking sector is …