Minimum capital requirement regulation forces banks to refund a substantial amount of their investments with equity … higher loan interest rates, then borrowers are likely to become more risky, which may destabilize the lending bank. This … paper argues that, in addition to the buffer and cost effect of capital regulation, there is a strategic effect. A binding …

review since the financial crisis of 2008. The purpose of the paper is to examine how much the current practices of bank … regulation enforced by the EU Directive CRD III, and hence how they have to be modified to adjust to the new standards. The … question is whether the new legal rules will have a significant impact on bank executive remuneration in Poland and will help …

the literature. The second section evaluates the different drivers of the bank capital regulation …

regulation. A concise model yields an estimating equation that relates a firm's capital structure to bank regulatory variables …This paper examines how the capital structure of non-financial firms is affected by international variation in bank … and their interactions with the tax rate reflecting the tax deductibility of interest. We identify an effect of bank …

supervisory practices, and there is a roughly equal division between those countries that rely on the central bank as the chief … bank or indirectly through a subsidiary of a bank, rather than through a holding company structure. The notable exceptions … illustrating a way in which empirical examinations of bank performance might be enriched by taking into account differences in …

In this chapter, our goal is to discuss whether and how bank lobbying in the United States leads to regulatory capture …. First, we provide an overview of the importance of and motivations behind bank lobbying. Second, we examine the impact of … lobbying on banking regulation and supervision by reviewing recent empirical evidence. Third, we discuss the effect of the …

This paper empirically examines how banks' dividend policy, the institutional environment, and banking regulation … regulation varies for crisis and noncrisis years. The estimation results reveal that banks' dividend policy influences positively … banks' profitability, whereas higher levels of the institutional environment or stricter banking regulation reduces banks …

public-interest view of regulation, not regulatory capture …

authorized UK banks and building societies at the consolidated (group) and standalone (bank) level. As a result, it permits both …