Minimum capital requirement regulation forces banks to refund a substantial amount of their investments with equity … paper argues that, in addition to the buffer and cost effect of capital regulation, there is a strategic effect. A binding … capital requirement regulation restricts the lending capacity of banks, and therefore reduces the intensity of loan interest …

This paper describes how behavioral elements are relevant to financial supervision,regulation, and central banking. It …

regulation. It proceeds by identifying four “interdependence problems” relating to harmonization of financial standards, capital … regulation than are efforts to reduce losses from financial instability, which will likely continue to be ineffective despite … to centrally administer international financial regulation are unlikely to succeed, because they misstate the underlying …

. Contrary to claims in the literature that "equity is expensive" and that regulation requiring more equity in the funding mix … entails costs to society, such regulation actually helps create useful commitment for banks to avoid the inefficiently high … borrowing that comes under laissez-faire. Effective regulation is beneficial even without considering systemic risk; if such …