The regulation of bank capital as a means of smoothing the credit cycle is a central element of forthcoming macro …--on both questions, using a unique dataset. In the UK, regulators have imposed time-varying, bank-specific minimum capital …

-funded capital injections. However, on closer inspection the composition of bank capital shifted radically from one based on common …

data through 2008 to investigate whether bank consolidation and other measures achieved their stated goals and whether they …

, why commercial bank leverage has tended to increase over time and why large banks tend to have relatively less capital …

labor supply in response to productivity shocks. Bank market integration thus contributes to a moderation of firm-level and …

This paper assesses the impact of the geographic diversification of bank holding company (BHC) assets across the United … States on their market valuations. Using two novel identification strategies based on the dynamic process of interstate bank …

-rated tranches were economically trivial for the typical bank, but banks with greater holdings performed more poorly during the …-rated tranches are not higher for banks with large trading books in regressions that control for bank size. The ratio of highly …-rated tranches holdings to assets increases with bank assets, but not for banks with more than $50 billion of assets. This evidence …