This paper shows that bank competition has an intrinsically ambiguous effect on capital accumulation and economic … evidence gathered from recent empirical studies of how bank competition affects the real economy. Our results were obtained by … leads to higher capital accumulation. The opposite is true when entrepreneurs are innately of higher credit quality. -- Bank …

We address two questions: (i) Are bank capital structure and value correlated in the cross section, and if so, how? (ii …) If bank capital does affect bank value, how are the components of bank value affected by capital? We first develop a … dynamic model with a dissipative cost of bank capital that is traded off against the benefits of capital: strengthened …

regulated institutions such as bank holding companies and insurance companies, thus creating a source of systemic risk for the …