Ag??nor, Pierre-Richard; Pereira da Silva, Luiz A. - 2012
This paper analyzes the cyclical effects of bank capital requirements in a simple model with credit market … imperfections. Lending rates are set as a premium over the cost of borrowing from the central bank, with the premium itself … introduced through a signaling effect of capital buffers on the cost of bank deposits. The macroeconomic effects of various …