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 …

global factors driving cross-border bank flows, alongside country-specific factors. It confirms the explanatory power of US … financial conditions, with flows decreasing in market volatility (VIX) and term premia, and increasing in bank leverage, growth … frameworks and better bank regulation, but less so for flows to non-financial firms …