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Frictions prevent banks to immediately adjust their capital ratio towards their desired and/or imposed level. This paper analyzes (i) whether or not these frictions are larger for regulatory capital ratios vis-à-vis a plain leverage ratio; (ii) which adjustment channels banks use to adjust...
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, policymakers, and bank managers for better decision making. …
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bank's financing structure. In our model the bank's assets consist of illiquid loans and liquid reserves and are financed … to an exogenous rollover risk. We show that the use of repos inflicts two types of indirect (“shadow”) costs on the bank …'s shareholders: first, it induces the bank to maintain higher liquid reserves in order to alleviate the additional default risk …
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We exploit variation in commercial bank capital ratios across states to identify the impact of commercial bank balance … indicate a lack of substitutes for bank funding both in the short and long run. This lack of substitutes implies a notable … highlight the potential effects that bank balance sheet pressures, for example, from tightening capital adequacy standards, such …
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We exploit variation in commercial bank capital ratios across states to identify the impact of higher capital ratios on …
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Using quarterly data of U.S. commercial banks, we investigate the impact of market liquidity shortages on banks' capitalization and balance sheet adjustments. Our findings reveal that an acute liquidity shortage leads small U.S. commercial banks, but not large ones, to positively adjust their...
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? Studying various fiscal reforms across Europe with bank- and loan-level data, we find that both the introduction of an equity … subsidy and of a tax on bank liabilities lead banks to refocus their activities on lending. Hence, taxes can be a … complementary tool to capital requirements to reduce bank leverage, while maintaining the supply of credit. More broadly, our …
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are sold at the fair price. The fair price ensures that an increase in investment increases the profit of the bank. On the … sales on the bank's capital structure depends on the state of the economy. The bank engages in over-investment, if it can …
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How do banks set their target capital ratio? How do they adjust to reach it? This paper answers these questions using an original dataset of capital ratio targets directly announced to investors by European banks, materially improving data quality compared to usual estimated implicit target. It...
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ratio on commercial bank risk-taking over the period from 2002 to 2019 using a two-step GMM method. The finding reveals that …
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