German banks experienced a merger wave throughout the 1990s. However, the success of bank mergers remains a continuous …

We analyze how time-varying bank-specific capital requirements a ect banks' balance sheet adjustments as well as bank … lending to the non-financial corporate sector. To do so, we relate Pillar 2 capital requirements to bank balance sheet data, a … examine how time-varying bank-specific capital requirements affect banks' balance sheet composition. Subsequently, we …

In this paper we investigate the relationship between changes in risk and changes in leverage for a panel of Swiss … banks. Using market data for risk and both accounting and market data for capital for the period between 1990 and 2002, we … find a positive correlation between changes in capital and changes in risk, i.e., higher levels of capital are associated …

’ regulatory capital on the transmission of monetary policy in a system of liquidity networks. The dynamic panel regression results … provide evidence in favor of the bank capital channel theory. Banks holding less regulatory capital and less interbank … liquidity react more restrictively to a monetary tightening than their peers. …

' regulatory capital on the transmission of monetary policy in a system of liquidity networks. The dynamic panel regression results … provide evidence in favor of the bank capital channel theory. Banks holding less regulatory capital and less interbank … liquidity react more restrictively to a monetary tightening than their peers. …

This article presents the results of stress tests of the Czech banking sector conducted using models of credit risk and … of credit risk for individual sectors. Based on the analysis, an answer is sought to the question of whether the observed …

We study bank supervision by combining a theoretical model that distinguishes supervision from regulation and a novel … supervision and use the model to interpret the relationship between supervisory efforts and bank characteristics observed in the … proportionally with bank size, suggesting the presence of technological economies of scale in supervision. The data also show …