Guangling (Dave) Liu; Seeiso, Nkhahle E. - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2011
This paper studies the impacts of bank capital regulation on business cycle fluctuations. To do so, we adopt the Bernanke et al. (1999) "financial accelerator" model (BGG), to which we augment a banking sector to study the procyclical nature of Basel II claimed in the literature. We first study...