This paper examines changes in bank capital and capital regulations since the global financial crisis, in the Europe … and Central Asia region. It shows that banks in Europe and Central Asia are better capitalized, as measured by regulatory … capital ratios, than they were prior to the crisis. However, the increase in simple equity ratios for the same banks has been …

bank capital requirements may well induce an aggregate slowdown or contraction of bank credit in these economies …

and summarizes the evolution in bank capital regulations, capitalization of banks, market discipline, and supervisory …This paper summarizes the latest update of the World Bank Bank Regulation and Supervision Survey. The paper explores … crisis. Bank supervision became stricter and more complex compared with the pre-global financial crisis period. However …