We study the macroeconomic effects of bank capital requirements in an economy with two banking sectors. Banks are connected through a wholesale funding market. Anticipated banking crises occur endogenously in the form of self-fulfilling wholesale funding rollover crises. Retail bank capital...

We study the macroeconomic effects of retail bank capital regulation in an economy with a retail and a shadow banking sector. The financial instability takes the form of bank runs on the shadow banking sector. Retail bank capital regulation reduces the frequency of bank runs by mitigating the...