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 …

regulatory liquidity requirements on bank behavior. A multi-stage decision situation allows for considering the interaction … between credit risk and liquidity risk of banks. This interaction is found to make a risk neutral bank behave as if it were …

Since the European debt crisis economists and politicians discuss intensively the sovereign-bank nexus. The high … exposure on bank stability. This paper provides a new way to use European stress test data to study this relationship. In … addition, we explore the effect on a bank’s probability of default if the existing capital requirement privilege for EU …

We study how optimal bank capital and bond risk are influenced by deposit insurance, implicit guarantees, depositor … preference, asset encumbrance, and bail-in resolution frameworks. We find that these features of bank financing change the … optimal amount of bank capital. The net effect on bond debt risk and valuation is small, while the effects on shareholder …

We analyze the relationship between bank size and risk-taking under the New Basel Capital Accord. Using a model with …

Recent literature suggests that regulatory risk measures do not adequately capture the actual economic risk of bank … risk sensitivity, i.e., the response of Basel risk weights to asset volatility as our measure of a bank's asset portfolio …

provisions estimate of banks. While bank credit risk teams are sometimes mesmerised by the short-term benefits of provisions … games, they do not care if their behaviour destroys bank value and the informativeness of loan loss provisioning estimates …. While it is not difficult for bank managers and analysts to understand that the provisioning process is subject to gaming …

We study the impact of higher bank capital buffers, namely of the Other Systemically Important Institu- tions (O …