-specific variables. Data on regulation, supervision and monitoring variables, and activity restrictions are from the most recent Bank … Regulation and Supervision Survey database conducted by the World Bank, published 2012. Besides these we incorporate bank size … evidence suggests that the link between capital regulation and banking efficiency is not robust enough to control for other …

This paper evaluates the incentives that banks have to herd. It includes a complete literature review of papers from … policy that reduces the costs of over-investment increases the incentives of banks to herd …

crisis, recent advances in global liquidity regulation try to curb the excessive reliance on short-term wholesale funding … regulation may interfere with the central bank's influence on short-term money market rates. This paper tries to fill the gap in … asymmetric information. Regulation can be welfare-improving in the presence of an externality and also in case of collateral …