This paper examines capital adequacy regulation in Germany. After a short overview about financial regulation in … Germany in general, the paper focuses on the most important development in the area of capital adequacy regulation from the … regulatory equity and the increasing reliance on banks’ internal risk models for the determination of risk weights. The first …

balance of three forces: interest rate pass-through, risk shifting, and leverage. When banks can adjust their capital … structures, a monetary easing leads to greater leverage and lower monitoring. However, if a bank's capital structure is fixed …, the balance depends on the degree of bank capitalization: when facing a policy rate cut, well capitalized banks decrease …

capital ratios, than they were prior to the crisis. However, the increase in simple equity ratios for the same banks has been …This paper examines changes in bank capital and capital regulations since the global financial crisis, in the Europe … and Central Asia region. It shows that banks in Europe and Central Asia are better capitalized, as measured by regulatory …

The determinants of default risk of banks in emerging economies have so far received inadequate attention in the … the economy. Public sector banks have shown significant performance in containing bad debts. Private banks have continued …, and establishes that while capital adequacy and investment activity significantly affect the profitability of commercial …