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Bank Capital and Risk-Taking

Publication year: 2007

ISBN: 978-3-540-48545-2

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The aim of this study is to contribute to this understanding by answering the following questions: How do banks adjust capital and risk after an increase in capital requirements? How do banks adjust their regulatory capital buffer over the business cycle? And what is the impact of banks' charter value on the regulatory capital buffer?


Subject: Business and Economics, Bank Capital, Bank Capital Regulation, Bank Risk-Taking, Banking, Basel II, Charter Value