Mankart, Jochen; Michaelides, Alexander G.; Pagratis, Spyros - 2019
profitability, reducing bank incentives to accumulate equity buffers and, therefore, increasing the incidence of bank failure … 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 …