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 …

choose their portfolio risk, bank size, and capital holdings. Banks voluntarily hold equity when the buffer effect against … are larger, choose riskier portfolios, and have less equity. Moreover, binding capital requirements or levies on bank …

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 general view underlying bank regulation is that bank disclosures providemarket discipline and reduce banks’ risk …-taking incentives. We show that bankdisclosures can increase bank leverage and bank risk. The reason stems from theinteraction between … insured and uninsured debt. Bank disclosures reduce the agencyproblem between uninsured debt and equity, thereby lowering the …

Regulatory bank levies set incentives for banks to reduce leverage. At the same time, corporate income taxation makes … funding through debt more attractive. In this paper, we explore how regulatory levies affect bank capital structure, depending … on corporate income taxation. Based on bank balance sheet data from 2006 to 2014 for a panel of EU-banks, our analysis …

Traditional theory suggests that higher bank profitability (or franchise value) dissuades bank risk-taking. We … highlight an opposite effect: higher profitability loosens bank borrowing constraints. This enables profitable banks to take … risk on a larger scale, inducing risk-taking. This effect is more pronounced when bank leverage constraints are looser, or …

This paper studies the impact of bank regulation and taxation in a dynamic model where banks are exposed to credit and … an inverted U–shaped relationship between capital requirements and bank lending, efficiency, and welfare, with their … welfare costs than taxes on non-deposit liabilities. -- Bank Regulation ; Taxation ; Dynamic Banking Model …