Die in Folge der Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise kontinuierlich steigenden regulatorischen Anforderungen an die Kreditwirtschaft resultieren in einer erhöhten Kostenbelastung durch die Implementierung und laufende Erfüllung zusätzlicher Bestimmungen. Da bürokratischen Anforderungen...

This paper analyzes the effect of the business cycle on the regulatory capital buffer of German savings and cooperative banks in the period 19932003. The capital buffer is found to fluctuate anticyclically over the business cycle. The fluctuation is stronger for savings banks than for...

Forty-eight credit unions received capital injections as part of the financial sector bailout. The predicted probability of receiving bailout funds jumps from 29 percent to 81 percent for the typical credit union, if the institution's headquarters was in the district of a member of the U.S....