Nicoló, Gianni De; Gamba, Andrea; Lucchetta, Marcella - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
liquidity risk. We find an inverted U-shaped relationship between capital requirements and bank lending, efficiency, and welfare …, with their benefits turning into costs beyond a certain requirement threshold. By contrast, liquidity requirements reduce … lending, efficiency and welfare significantly. The costs of high capital and liquidity requirements represent a lower bound on …