The current study aims to examine the determinants of the capital adequacy ratio (CAR) in the context of Jordanian banks through a literature review and analysis of empirical evidence. The aggregate data were obtained from Globaleconomy.com, the Financial Soundness Indicators, the Central Bank...

Banks increasingly use short-term wholesale funds to supplement traditional retail deposits. Existing literature mainly points to the ""bright side"" of wholesale funding: sophisticated financiers can monitor banks, disciplining bad but refinancing good ones. This paper models a ""dark side"" of...

This paper examines capital adequacy regulation in Germany. After a short overview about financial regulation in Germany in general, the paper focuses on the most important development in the area of capital adequacy regulation from the 1930s up to the financial crisis. Two main trends are...