This article explores the effect of delays in updating prudential regulation on countries' likelihood of experiencing … banking crises, and it disentangles the impact of different aspects of regulation on crisis onset. I argue that delays in … revising banks' prudential regulation allow banks to adopt risky behavior. This increases a country's vulnerability to systemic …

controlling for a number of bank and country characteristics and contrary to what happens for a non-Basel II bank, for a Basel II … bank a higher cost of equity is not associated with a higher ratio between risk-weighted assets and total assets. These …