European Central Bank and the European Commission: the Survey on the Access to Finance of Enterprises. Firstly, we consider a …

new Basel III Accord to counter excessive bank risk-taking behavior. However, prior theoretical as well as empirical … literature that studies the impact of risk-based capital requirements on bank risk-taking behavior is inconclusive. The primary … purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of risk-based capital requirements on bank risk-taking behavior, using a panel …