Miles, David; Yang, Jing; Marcheggiano, Gilberto - 2011
This paper reports estimates of the long-run costs and benefits of banks funding more of their assets with loss … of the benefits from having banks use more equity no estimate of costs - however accurate - can tell us what the optimal … level of bank capital is. We use empirical evidence on UK banks to assess costs; we use data from shocks to incomes from a …