unweighted leverage requirements, their differential impact on bank lending, and equity buffer accumulation in excess of … regulatory minima. Tighter risk-weighted capital requirements reduce loan supply and lead to an endogenous fall in bank … profitability, reducing bank incentives to accumulate equity buffers and, therefore, increasing the incidence of bank failure …

Bank capital, and a bank's liquidity position, are concepts that are central to understanding what banks do, the risks … that can absorb losses that could otherwise threaten a bank's solvency. Meanwhile, liquidity problems arise due to … interactions between funding and the asset side of the balance sheet — when a bank does not hold sufficient cash (or assets that …