Using quarterly financial statements and stock market data from 1982 to 2010 for the six largest Canadian chartered banks, this paper documents positive co-movement between Canadian banks' capital buffer and business cycles. The adoption of Basel Accords and the balance sheet leverage cap...

We investigate the role of foreign banks and access to the regional stock market in the relationship between bank capital, competition and liquidity creation in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) countries using hand-collected bank-level data for 2000-2017. We uncover new...