Berger, Allen N.; Bouwman, Christa H.S. - In: Journal of Financial Economics 109 (2013) 1, pp. 146-176
This paper empirically examines how capital affects a bank’s performance (survival and market share) and how this …. We have two main results. First, capital helps small banks to increase their probability of survival and market share at … large banks primarily during banking crises. Additional tests explore channels through which capital generates these effects …