A Review of Empirical Research on the Design and Impact of Regulation in the Banking Sector

Hans Degryse, Sanja Jakovljević and Steven Ongena
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Sanja Jakovljević: Department of Accountancy, Finance and Insurance, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium

Annual Review of Financial Economics, 2015, vol. 7, issue 1, 423-443

Abstract: We review existing empirical research on the design and impact of regulation in the banking sector. The impact of each individual piece of regulation may inexorably depend on the set of regulations already in place, the characteristics of the banks involved (from their size or ownership structure to operational idiosyncrasies in terms of capitalization levels or risk-taking behavior), and the institutional development of the country where the regulation is introduced. This complexity is challenging for the econometrician, who relies either on single-country data to identify challenges for regulation or on cross-country data to assess the overall effects of regulation. It is also troubling for the policy maker, who has to optimally design regulation to avoid any unintended consequences, especially those that vary over the credit cycle such as the currently developing macroprudential frameworks.

Keywords: bank capital; banking regulation; Basel; cross-country studies; procyclicality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G21 G28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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