We survey 149 leading academic researchers on bank capital regulation. The median (average) respondent prefers a 10 … strongly an expert believes that higher capital requirements would increase the cost of bank lending. …

We survey 149 leading academic researchers on bank capital regulation. The median (average) respondent prefers a 10 … strongly an expert believes that higher capital requirements would increase the cost of bank lending …

interconnectedness on the banks' failure probability can be alleviated if bank capital regulation is properly designed. This paper … supports the conclusion in Allen and Gale (2000) that a complete financial system in which each bank is connected to all the …

We survey 149 leading academic researchers on bank capital regulation. The median (average) respondent prefers a 10 … strongly an expert believes that higher capital requirements would increase the cost of bank lending …

CDS on their borrowers, but their net CDS positions and lending status are largely unrelated. We find no evidence of bank …

evidence of bank using CDS to exploit private information …