After the 2008 global financial crisis, U.S. bank holding companies needing to cover larger-than-expected loan losses … entities acquired by each holding company in the quarters prior to their mergers. As in the related literature, we fail to … finding suggests that holding companies built up provisions to some degree during the pre-crisis period to cover larger future …

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 …