Regulatory bank levies set incentives for banks to reduce leverage. At the same time, corporate income taxation makes … funding through debt more attractive. In this paper, we explore how regulatory levies affect bank capital structure, depending … on corporate income taxation. Based on bank balance sheet data from 2006 to 2014 for a panel of EU-banks, our analysis …

Regulatory bank levies set incentives for banks to reduce leverage. At the same time, corporate income taxation makes … funding through debt more attractive. In this paper, we explore how regulatory levies affect bank capital structure, depending … on corporate income taxation. Based on bank balance sheet data from 2006 to 2014 for a panel of EU-banks, our analysis …

of the new bank taxes—in terms of their tax base, rate, duration, and burden. The paper discusses several trade-offs in … the design of bank taxes and argues that an alternative or complementary policy response to temporarily high bank profits … is to lock them in as usable bank capital, for example through an increase in countercyclical capital buffer rates …

imperfectly elastic supply of bank equity stemming from financial market segmentation. In our model, equity is costly and serves … and the design of bank stress testing. …

empirical support. We conclude that bank equity is not socially expensive, and that high leverage at the levels allowed, for …

regulatory requirements. Our analytic characterization of the bank policy choices shows that imposing solely liquidity … requirements leads to lower bank losses in default at the cost of an increased likelihood of default. Combining liquidity … requirements with leverage requirements reduces drastically both the likelihood of default and the magnitude of bank losses in …