requirements. We find that an increase in the bankspecific regulatory capital requirement results in a higher bank capital ratio … and higher bank leverage. We do not observe differences between confidential and public disclosure of capital requirements …. Our results empirically illustrate a tradeoff between bank resilience and a fostering of the economy through more bank …

the Basel II agreement on the pro-cyclicality of bank lending and firms' access to funds during a recession. In response …

This paper examines how Basel III capital reforms affected bank lending in Ger- many. We focus on the increase of …-based capital regulation significantly affected low capitalized banks. The impact depends on a bank's credit risk model, i ….e. whether a bank applies the standardized approach (SA) or an internal ratings-based approach (IRBA) to determine risk weights …

such differential taxation on the debt ratio of firms. We exploit a 2009 tax reform in Germany as a quasi-experiment, which …