We investigate the influence of the institutional environment on bank capital ratios. Using a sample of 149 banks …. Our findings contribute to the bank capital structure literature and have important policy implications for developing …

This research aims to investigate the influence of bank capital, risk-based capital and bank capital buffers on the … behaviour of bank risk-taking by applying GMM on the data of US commercial banks ranges from 2002 to 2018. The findings show … that bank capital has a positive influence on total risk. However, risk-based capital and capital buffer have a negative …

ratio on commercial bank risk-taking over the period from 2002 to 2019 using a two-step GMM method. The finding reveals that …

-risk-based capital ratios and bank risk-taking. The findings also demonstrate that an increase in capital buffer ratios decreases the …

Recent changes in U.S. banking regulation have emphasized risk-based capital (RBC) as an indicator of bank soundness … ratios of bank holding companies from 1999 through 2010 against two measures of bank risk: the standard deviation of stock … returns and the Z-score indicator of bank solvency. We find that the capital and RBC ratios are statistically significant …

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 …

The conventional view is that capital requirements, those intended to reduce bank risks, can have a negative impact on … bank lending. This paper reconsiders this view by studying the interaction between capital requirements and corporate … regulators to consider the impact of corporate governance when implementing bank capital requirements …

. While it is not difficult for bank managers and analysts to understand that the provisioning process is subject to gaming … 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 …