This paper reviews studies exploring how higher bank capital requirements affect economic growth. There is little … evidence of a direct effect; research focuses on the indirect effects of capital requirements on credit supply, bank asset risk …, and cost of bank capital, which in turn can affect economic growth. Banks facing higher capital requirements can reduce …

experienced serious liquidity and solvency problems. Based on the new policy of the State Bank of Vietnam, in order to ensure safe … paper investigates the effects of the Basel II capital requirement implementation in Viet Nam on the bank lending rate and …). The main finding of the paper is that at the bank level, a tightening of regulatory capital requirements does not induce a …