The 2008 financial crisis exposed a longstanding problem in financial regulation: traditional regulatory strategies … tend to be procyclical. That is, regulatory tools—most notably, bank capital requirements—incentivize excessive credit … regulation was a key driver of the housing bubble in the mid-2000s and the massive credit crunch that followed. To combat this …

This paper examines capital adequacy regulation in Germany. The first part reviews capital adequacy regulation from the …

policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic across 154 jurisdictions. It documents that authorities around the world have taken … economies, which may reduce bank balance sheet transparency and increase risks. Using Cox proportional hazards and Poisson …

-based informal co- and self-regulation through domestic (gentlemen's) agreements underpinned West German bank internationalisation …Current theories of financial regulation suggest expanding rules-based formal state intervention to promote … regulation, drawing on unused primary sources: Coalitions between the German regulating and regulated actors were bolstered by a …