Banks must maintain a balance between their own capital and the level of accepted aggregate risk to ensure financial stability. This paradigm is expressed in terms of capital adequacy requirements to both the minimum capital required to cover regulatory risks and the risk capital required to...

We build a stylized dynamic general equilibrium model with financial frictions to analyze costs and benefits of capital requirements in the short-term and long-term. We show that since increasing capital requirements limits the aggregate loan supply, the equilibrium loan rate spread increases,...

This paper is aimed at providing an analysis of the recent updates which have taken place in respect of the Basel III Leverage Ratio and the Basel III Supplementary Leverage Ratio – both in relation to recent amendments introduced by the Basel Committee and proposals introduced in the United...

This paper theoretically analyzes the addition of a leverage ratio to a risk-weighted capital ratio, and its impact on the banks' risk-taking and the credit supply. We show that such capital requirements à la Basel III reduce the credit supply without necessarily improving banking stability. We...

We study how optimal bank capital and bond risk are influenced by deposit insurance, implicit guarantees, depositor preference, asset encumbrance, and bail-in resolution frameworks. We find that these features of bank financing change the optimal amount of bank capital. The net effect on bond...

This paper empirically investigates how risk exposure of security holdings affected the optimal choice of total risk weighted asset under Basel II regulation. With costly recapitalization cost, banks optimally choose buffer regulatory capital above the minimum standard. Therefore, security...

The traditional approach to the stress testing of financial institutions focuses on capital adequacy and solvency. Liquidity stress tests have been applied in parallel to and independently from solvency stress tests, based on scenarios which may not be consistent with those used in solvency...