Since the historical capital regulation by China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) in 2004, Chinese banks have reported remarkable capital growth in their statements. This study examines the impacts of heavily issued and cross-held subordinate debt (SD) towards inflated capital adequacy...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impacts of capital regulation and market discipline when China imposed most of the Basel I requirements between 2004 and 2010. Design/methodology/approach – Following Barrios and Blanco (2003) and Rime (2001), the authors apply...