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 …

Traditional theory suggests that higher bank profitability (or franchise value) dissuades bank risk-taking. We … highlight an opposite effect: higher profitability loosens bank borrowing constraints. This enables profitable banks to take … risk on a larger scale, inducing risk-taking. This effect is more pronounced when bank leverage constraints are looser, or …