and have critical policy implications for the implementation of Basel III and the debate on capital requirements and bank …

bank core capital, suggesting that bank managers tend to increase pure equity to signal better monitoring efforts and avoid … (PLS) principle that considers depositors as investors who agree to share profits and losses with the bank, thus making the …

We investigate the influence of the institutional environment on bank capital ratios. Using a sample of 149 banks …. Our findings contribute to the bank capital structure literature and have important policy implications for developing …

We empirically investigate whether a bank's decision to recapitalize is influenced by the separation between voting and … cash-flow rights of the ultimate owner. We use a novel dataset on bank ultimate control and ownership structure of 442 … more pronounced if the ultimate owner is a family or a state, or if the bank is headquartered in a country with weak …

This paper empirically investigates whether a bank's decision to adjust its capital is influenced by the existence of a … bank is headquartered in a country with relatively weak shareholder protection. Moreover, this behavior is tempered during …