Purpose: This paper analysed the effects of bank's risk on capital buffer in Namibia, in the absence of the consensus … both the short and long run. On the contrary, bank size in form of log of total loans positively affects capital buffers in …

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 …