The appropriate level of bank capital and, more generally, a bank's capacity to absorb losses, has been at the core of … to avoid imposing losses on bank creditors or resorting to public recapitalizations of banks in past banking crises. The … bank credit and lending rates. Its findings broadly support the range of loss absorbency suggested by the Financial …

explain about two-thirds of the variation of bank capitalization over the business cycle. We estimate that provisioning …

The Bank for the Accounts of Companies Harmonized (BACH) is a free-of-charge database containing the aggregated …

of the traditional bank business model. Specialized providers of financial services can chip away activities that do not …