Purpose – In order to improve banks' ability to fight against risks, China's financial regulatory authorities refer to the Basel Accord, and bank capital adequacy ratio is taken as an important means of control. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the internal mechanism between capital...

Purpose–In order to improve banks' ability to fight against risks, China's financial regulatory authorities refer to the Basel Accord, and bank capital adequacy ratio is taken as an important means of control. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the internal mechanism between capital...

Over last two decades, emerging and developing nations have desperately endeavored for efficient banking sectors. In this study, we argue that bank efficiency generates incentives that can impact banks' capital holdings and the cost of financial intermediation. Analyzing a panel dataset of 1190...

In response to the recent global financial crisis, the regulatory authorities in many countries have imposed stringent capital requirements in the form of the BASEL III Accord to ensure financial stability. On the other hand, bankers have criticized new regulation on the ground that it would...

The close relationship between governments and their central banks generates risks for both partners. This paper presents an original qualitative empirical approach based on textual analysis of the United States of America, China, and their Central Banks' respective communications. These...

This study investigates how regulatory ability and banking market structure affect explicit deposit insurance scheme (eDIS) adoption and banks' risk taking under eDIS. We find that:(i) The regulatory ability exists a threshold if the government regulator's regulatory ability above the threshold,...

Classic theories always ignore the influence of the banking industry environment on deposit insurance's regulation mechanism. With information transparency and competition degree dimensions, we build a banking risk-taking model and find that the optimal regulation mechanism does not depend on...