We explore an inconsistency in the Basel Committee's Internal Ratings Based (IRB) rules: the IRB rules on corporate loans were calibrated to loan-level data, while the IRB rules on small business loans were calibrated with little, if any, information on small business loans. We argue that the...

This paper investigates how banks' capital and lending decisions respond to changes in bank-specific capital and disclosure requirements using proprietary regulatory data from the Danish FSA on the full population of banks in Denmark. We find that banks adjust their capital ratio via different...