This paper revisits trends in bank privatization and analyzes their economic impact over the past 25 years. Building on … a novel data set of privatization events for 70 developed and developing countries, it shows that bank privatization … smaller in that the fraction of a bank's ownership relinquished during privatization events declined. The majority of …

This paper examines changes in bank capital and capital regulations since the global financial crisis, in the Europe … of the definition of Tier 1 capital and reduction in risk-weights. Further analyses show that bank risk in Europe and …