international banks, we show that the current scoring methodology severely distorts the allocation of regulatory capital among banks …. We then propose and implement a methodology that corrects for these shortcomings and increases incentives for banks to …

This paper studies liability management exercises (LME) by banks, which have comparable regulatory capital effects than … series and are frequently associated with equity issuances. These exercises prove effective at improving bank capitalization … innovative liabilities securities as a tool to improve bank resilience …

We provide the first evidence that changes in risk-based capital requirements for banks affect the real economy through … international trade. Using a natural experiment – mandatory Basel II adoption in its Standardized Approach by all banks in Turkey on … -1 while the overall trade elasticity to be between -0.032 and -0.179. Calculations suggest that both CLC-related bank …

deregulation between 1994 and 2005, we find that an exogenous expansion of bank branches increases low-income household financial …

-hedge is the most appropriate approach given the role of intermediation of commercial banks and that it better meets the …

to measure the effects of financial reforms in banks productivity and efficiency in the WAEMU area during the 1996 …-2006 period, and secondly, to draw the mains managerial determinants of banks efficiency. The productivity and efficiency scores … did not permit to banks to increase their technical efficiency. Thirdly, small banks make more efforts to reduce their …

doctrine, whose prime goal is to protect investors against opportunism by banks, limits the involvement of banks in the …