An important question in banking is how strict supervision affects bank lending and in turn local business activity … supervision, bank lending and business activity. We first show that the OTS replacement indeed resulted in stricter supervision of … overcome frictions in bank management, leading to more lending and a reallocation of loans. Consistent with the latter, we find …

An important question in banking is how strict supervision affects bank lending and in turn local business activity … the thrift regulator (OTS) to analyze economic links between strict supervision, bank lending and business activity. We … capital but can also correct deficiencies in bank management and lending practices, leading to more lending and a reallocation …

Bank leverage ratios have made an impressive and largely unopposed return; they are mostly used alongside risk …-weighted capital requirements. The reasons for this return are manifold, and they are not limited to the fact that bank equity levels … straightforward real estate loans. Bank leverage ratios are primarily seen as a microprudential measure that intends to increase bank …

in line with the economic conditions they face. Bank responses feed back to the macroeconomic environment affecting …

This paper attempts to quantify business cycle effects of bank capital requirements. The authors use a general …

leverage of the financial system, and prompted proposals by bank supervisors to significantly tighten bank capital requirements … new approach based on a data-rich environment at both the micro (bank) level and the macro level, using a combination of … bank panel regressions and macroeconomic factor models. We first identify bank leverage shocks at the micro level and …

leverage of the financial system, and prompted proposals by bank supervisors to significantly tighten bank capital requirements … new approach based on a data-rich environment at both the micro (bank) level and the macro level, using a combination of … bank panel regressions and macroeconomic factor models. We first identify bank leverage shocks at the micro level and …

Theoretically, bank's loan monitoring activity hinges critically on its capitalisation. To proxy for monitoring … governance of the firm. Exploiting granular bank-firm relationships observed in the syndicated loan market, we document …