This paper offers novel evidence on the impact of raising bank capital requirements in the context of an emerging … market: Peru. Using quarterly bank-level data and exploiting the adoption of bank-specific capital buffers, we find that … higher capital requirements have a short-lived, negative impact on bank credit in Peru, although this effect becomes …

conditions, and the regulatory environment. We use this model to simulate bank credit losses for stress-testing purposes and to … that can be made to capture country-specific institutional features. The model uses bank portfolio data broken down by risk …

better control of a major source of business cycle fluctuations, sudden increases and contractions of bank credit and of the … supply of bank-created money. (2) Complete elimination of bank runs. (3) Dramatic reduction of the (net) public debt. (4 …