in the banking sectors of various countries. After the 2007-2009 crisis, bank capital requirements have, in some cases … guidelines has contributed to regulatory complexity, even when omitting other bank capital regulations that are specific to the … US, and (3) how the US regulatory measures still do not provide equally valuable information about whether a bank is …

This study reports estimates of the marginal benefits and costs of increasing the regulatory minimum bank equity …

In 1865, the first minority bank in the United States was established. Over time, banks owned or controlled by … and one in which income and poverty are worse compared to national averages. Importantly, when MDIs are compared to non …

DFA, however, requires that bank holding companies (BHCs) with $50 billion or more in consolidated assets must be …

2007-2009. The fear is that if a big bank gets into trouble, its problems will infect other financial institutions and … there are huge complexities at almost every level. What is “big?” How big is too big? What is a “bank?” What kinds of risk …-taking are appropriate for a bank – and why? What do we know about the costs and benefits of different strategies? This paper …

supervisory practices, and there is a roughly equal division between those countries that rely on the central bank as the chief … bank or indirectly through a subsidiary of a bank, rather than through a holding company structure. The notable exceptions … illustrating a way in which empirical examinations of bank performance might be enriched by taking into account differences in …

a national or "domestic" context. Under those circumstances it is therefore fortunate that, due to recent World Bank … the new data collected by the World Bank on the post-crisis regulation and supervision of SIBs by 135 countries around the …

from the most recent (2011-2012) World Bank survey on banking supervision and regulation. Key observations emerging from …

In this paper and the associated online database, we provide new data and measures of bank regulatory and supervisory … questions, including information on permissible bank activities, capital requirements, the powers of official supervisory … performance of banking systems. Since the underlying surveys are large and complex, we construct summary indices of key bank …