Bedayo, Mikel; Estrada, Ángel; Saurina, Jesús - In: Latin American journal of central banking : LAJCB 1 (2020) 1/4, pp. 1-14
In this paper, we analyze the role bank capital played in systemic banking crises and in lending expansion and contraction for nearly 150 years in Spain. We first build a measure of capital ratio (i.e., the capital to assets ratio) for Spain's banking sector, starting in 1880. Then, we analyze...
