balance of three forces: interest rate pass-through, risk shifting, and leverage. When banks can adjust their capital …, the balance depends on the degree of bank capitalization: when facing a policy rate cut, well capitalized banks decrease … monitoring, while highly levered banks increase it. Further, the balance of these effects depends on the structure and …

switching to IRB, banks' risk-weighted asset (RWA) densities are thus expected to diverge, especially across countries with … different supervisory strictness and risk levels. However, when examining 52 listed banks headquartered in 14 European countries … convergence can be entirely explained by differences in the size of the banks, loss levels, country risk, and/or time of IRB …