We study the impact of higher bank capital buffers, namely of the Other Systemically Important Institu- tions (O …

greater insider ownership leads to less equity issuances. Several tests are consistent with the view that bank insiders are … between bank equity and lending, the results stress that ownership structure can shape the resilience of banks-and hence the …

deposits towards non-deposit liabilities. We find that unobserved timeinvariant bank fixed effects are ultimately the most … important determinant of banks' capital structures and that banks' leverage converges to bank specific, time invariant targets …. -- Bank capital ; capital regulation ; capital structure ; leverage …

We contribute to the empirical literature on the impact of shocks to bank capital in the euro area by estimating a … economy, namely a demand shock and a shock to bank capital. The main findings of the paper are as follows: i) Impulse …-response analysis shows that in response to a shock to bank capital, banks boost capital ratios by reducing their relative exposure to …

set available at the European Central Bank related to the 2016 EU-wide stress test, this paper presents novel empirical … evidence that supervisory scrutiny associated to stress testing has a disciplining effect on bank risk. We ftnd that banks that …

LCR considers only a subset of central bank eligible assets and thereby offers banks an arbitrage opportunity to improve … their regulatory ratio by altering their collateral pledging with the European Central Bank. We use the existence of … national liquidity requirements to proxy for banks' incentives to exploit this differential treatment of central bank eligible …