CCyB, especially relative to countries where a bank regulator or the central bank has the authority to set the CCyB. While …

This paper studies optimal bank capital requirements in a model of endogenous bank funding conditions. I find that … reason is that a high requirement during the recovery lowers bank shareholder value during the crisis and thus creates …

-step robust GMM estimator we show that restrictions on bank activities and more stringent capital standards weaken the capital … crunch effect, consistent with reduced risk taking and boosted bank charter values. Official supervision also reduces the … perspective. Weak regulations and supervision seem to increase the pro-cyclical effect of capital on bank lending …

A bank's decision on loan supply and capital structure determines its immediate bankruptcy risk as well as the future … availability of internal funds. These internal funds in turn determine a bank's future costs of external finance and future …-to-asset ratios, liquidity coverage ratios and regulatory margin calls on the dynamics of loan supply and bank stability. Only …