Using GMM framework on the data of the US commercial banks spanning over 2002 to 2018, this study shows that banks adjust their regulatory capital ratios faster than traditional capital ratios. Our results show that the speed of adjustment of regulatory capital ratios and traditional capital...

Using two-stage instrumental variable technique and two-step system GMM approach, we provide empirical evidence on impact of income, asset, and funding diversifications on the cost and profit efficiency of the US commercial banks over the period from 2002 to 2019. Our results show that funding...

Using GMM framework on the data of the US commercial banks over the period from 2002 to 2018, this study shows that banks adjust their regulatory capital ratios faster than traditional capital ratios; and, in most cases, the speed of adjustment of a traditional capital ratio is lower than...

This research aims to investigate the influence of bank capital, risk-based capital and bank capital buffers on the behaviour of bank risk-taking by applying GMM on the data of US commercial banks ranges from 2002 to 2018. The findings show that bank capital has a positive influence on total...