promoting bank safety and soundness. The Bank for International Settlements contends that market discipline imposes strong … potential losses from their risk exposures. Using 2007 and 2013 data on top-tier, publicly traded U.S. bank holding companies …

deposits towards non-deposit liabilities. We find that unobserved time-invariant bank fixed effects are ultimately the most … important determinant of banks’ capital structures and that banks’ leverage converges to bank specific, time invariant targets. …

bank. The results suggest that capital requirements may only be of second-order importance for banks? capital structures …

We address two questions: (i) Are bank capital structure and value correlated in the cross section, and if so, how? (ii …) If bank capital does affect bank value, how are the components of bank value affected by capital? We first develop a … dynamic model with a dissipative cost of bank capital that is traded off against the benefits of capital: strengthened …