competitive environment affect bank monitoring choices and the effectiveness of capital regulation? Our approach deviates from the …We assess the influence of competition and capital regulation on the stability of the banking system. We particularly … ask two questions: i) how does capital regulation affect (endogenous) entry; and ii) how do (exogenous) changes in the …

institutional roof - banks or non-bank (shadow) banks - under which they are conducted. Our results reveal a declining role of banks … (and a commensurate increase in non-bank banking). These structural shifts (between institutions) are coincident with …