What is the impact of a sudden and sizeable increase in bank capital requirements on the lending activity by directly … affected banks and by non-affected non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs)? To answer this question, we apply a difference … activities, in riskier and more competitive borrower segments, but NBFIs do not seem to rely on increased bank funding to finance …

lending behavior and risk sensitivity of a risk-neutral bank. CDS contracts may be used to hedge a bank’s credit risk exposure … at a certain (potentially distorted) price. Regulation is found to induce the risk-neutral bank to behave in a more risk … credit risk. Under the substitution approach in Basel II (and III) a risk-neutral bank will over-, fully or under-hedge its …

products. We find that a bank’s operational efficiency is priced in bank loan rates and alters interest-setting behavior … frontier analysis to comprehensively capture cost efficiency, we take the bank customers’ perspective and demonstrate the … ; bank efficiency ; cost efficiency ; stochastic frontier analysis …

level of bank capital is. We use empirical evidence on UK banks to assess costs; we use data from shocks to incomes from a …

Bank distress can have severe negative consequences for the stability of the financial system, the real economy, and … for public finances. Regimes for the restructuring and resolution of banks, financed by bank levies and fiscal backstops …, seek to reduce these costs. Bank levies attempt to internalize systemic risk and to increase the costs of leverage. This …

minimum standard is unlikely to exhibit adverse consequences for credit supply and bank profitability. …

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 …