How do banks adjust their capital ratios?

被引:49
作者
Memmel, Christoph [1 ]
Raupach, Peter [1 ]
机构
[1] Deutsch Bundesbank, D-60431 Frankfurt, Germany
关键词
Regulatory bank capital; Target capital ratio; Partial adjustment; CORPORATE; FINANCE; FIRMS; RISK;
D O I
10.1016/j.jfi.2009.10.002
中图分类号
F8 [财政、金融];
学科分类号
0202 ;
摘要
We analyze the dynamics of banks regulatory capital ratios. Using monthly regulatory data of large German banks, we estimate the target level and the adjustment speed of the capital ratio for each bank separately. There exists a target level for a substantial percentage of banks. Unlike with panel regressions, we can estimate individual adjustment speeds and find large variation across banks. Adjustments on the liability side are most effective, although adjustment rates on the asset side are higher. Private commercial banks (neither state-owned nor cooperative) and banks with a high level of proprietary trading are more likely to adjust their capital ratio tightly. Banks with a target capital ratio compensate for low target ratios with low asset volatilities and high adjustment speeds. They seem to care mainly about the resulting probability to comply with the regulatory minimum. Assuming low variation of this probability explains most of the large cross-sectional variation of bank capital. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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页码:509 / 528
页数:20
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