The role of bank capital as a propagation channel of shocks is strongly pronounced in recent macroeconomic models. In … this paper, we show how the evolution of bank capital depends on the share of non-state-contingent assets in banks’ balance …

bank profits, taxpayers, and consumers. …

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 …

bank (G-SIB) envisaged by regulators has an impact on the CDS prices of these banks. We find evidence that the CDS spreads … of a G-SIB bank increase (decrease) after the announcement of a higher (lower) capital surcharge. However, this effect is … contributes to the debate on whether being designated as a G-SIB bank necessarily leads to implicit "too-big-to-fail" subsidies …

equilibrium elasticity of bank loan supply with respect to bank capital. Although the targeted elasticity is remarkably different …

unweighted leverage requirements, their differential impact on bank lending, and equity buffer accumulation in excess of … regulatory minima. Tighter risk-weighted capital requirements reduce loan supply and lead to an endogenous fall in bank … profitability, reducing bank incentives to accumulate equity buffers and, therefore, increasing the incidence of bank failure …