Do Tougher Bank Capital Requirements Matter? New Evidence from the Eighties
Preprint
- 1 January 2001
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
In contrast to existing research, I find that tougher capital requirements were probably not responsible for the increase in capital ratios throughout the 1980sKeywords
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