The appropriate level of bank capital and, more generally, a bank's capacity to absorb losses, has been at the core of … to avoid imposing losses on bank creditors or resorting to public recapitalizations of banks in past banking crises. The … bank credit and lending rates. Its findings broadly support the range of loss absorbency suggested by the Financial …

The proposed SDN documents the evolution of bank size and activities over the past 20 years. It discusses whether this … to which bank size and market-based activities contribute to systemic risk. The paper concludes with policy messages in …