Do Regulatory Bank Capital Adjustments actually work?
This recent social science research network paper (A primer on regulatory bank capital adjustments) examines regulatory adjustments. These are adjustments that banks apply to book equity to calculate Tier 1 regulatory capital.
The paper, relying on U.S. data, documents a decreasing relation between regulatory adjustments and bank solvency. Specifically, …
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