The global financial crisis has confirmed the global regulatory mechanism weakness in the prevention of the causes and consequences in stress situations. As an expression of inadequacy, Basel Committee designed Basel III standard as a new regulatory framework for banks. Its implementation...

We investigate actual capital chosen by banks in presence of capital minimum requirements and ex-post penalties for violating them. The model yields excess capital that is always positive and increases during times of distress in the economy, which is in line with empirical evidence. Next, we...

We investigate actual capital chosen by banks in presence of capital minimum requirements and ex-post penalties for violating them. The model yields excess capital that is always positive and increases during times of distress in the economy, which is in line with empirical evidence. Next, we...

En este estudio analizamos el efecto del capital bancario en las expansiones y contracciones crediticias durante alrededor de 150 años en España. Primero construimos cuidadosamente una medida de apalancamiento bancario (i. e., ratio de capital sobre activo) para el sector bancario español...

The global financial crisis has clearly shown that macroeconomic stability is not sufficient to guarantee the stability of the financial system. Hence, the recent policy debate has focused on the effectiveness of macroprudential tools and their interaction with monetary policy. This paper aims...

In addition to monetary policy, macroprudential policy can be fundamentally used by countries to contain risks threatening the stability of their financial systems. As macroprudential policy becomes more important, European countries have also begun to consider the establishment of national...