This paper empirically investigates whether a bank's decision to adjust its capital is influenced by the existence of a … bank is headquartered in a country with relatively weak shareholder protection. Moreover, this behavior is tempered during …

adjustment model. Overall, consistent with the findings from the corporate finance literature, we find that bank capital … policy initiatives that aim to strengthen the bank capital regulation by introducing a minimum leverage ratio and by …

are badly taken into account in the current bank capital regulation framework. These results might help us to better …

The crisis in Europe has underscored the vulnerability of European bank funding models compared to international peers …. This paper studies the drivers behind this fragility and examines the future of bank funding, primarily wholesale, in … possible policy options and bank actions to enhance European bank funding models' robustness …

, an insight into how the ownership structure of a bank affects investment decisions, performance and ultimately insolvency …

analysis is relevant to the debate on bank capital regulation, and complements Admati et al. (2010). In that paper we argued … subsidies, the effects of leverage reduction on bank managers or shareholders do not represent a social cost. In fact, we show … to leverage reduction leads to social inefficiencies. The main beneficiaries from high leverage may be bank managers. The …

is based on a large, unbalanced panel of German banks including 32,023 bank-year observations. We see an increase in the … asymmetries as well as banks' size and ownership structure. -- Bank regulation ; informational asymmetries ; risk provisioning …

creating a "model bank" with a portfolio mirroring the average asset composition of internationally active large banks, as well …