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This paper investigates whether European banks have capital targets and how deviations from the target impact their equity composition and activity mix. Using quarterly data for a sample of large European banks between 2004 and 2011, we show that there are notable asymmetries in banks' reactions...
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deposits towards non-deposit liabilities. We find that unobserved time-invariant bank fixed effects are ultimately the most … important determinant of banks' capital structures and that banks' leverage converges to bank specific, time invariant targets …
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natural experiment to study the effects of reduced bank capital adequacy on productivity. Affected banks respond not only by …
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bank health and the consequences for aggregate productivity in 11 European countries. Controlling for cyclical effects, the … Europe may at least partly stem from bank forbearance. The increasing survival of zombie firms congests markets and … around one-third of the impact of zombie congestion on capital misallocation can be directly attributed to bank health and …
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We analyze the effect of bank capital requirements on the structure and risk of a financial system where markets …
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We develop a dynamic structural model of bank behaviour that provides a microeconomic foundation for bank capital and …
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framework were more likely to require public support during the crisis. We instrument some characteristics of bank balance … sheets with these prudential indicators to investigate how they affect bank resilience. The share of non-interest income …
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This paper studies a banking model of maturity transformation in which regulatory arbitrage induces the coexistence of regulated commercial banks and unregulated shadow banks. We derive three main results: First, the relative size of the shadow banking sector determines the stability of the...
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the LRR is no longer the binding capital constraint on them. If the LRR is lower than the average bank's IRB requirement …
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This paper presents evidence that banks react to regulation in a forward-looking manner. A case study documents a reaction to Basel II as early as 2000, in other words about seven years prior to the implementation of the regulation in 2007. Based on the initial information released on Basel II,...
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