 Capital ratios and the cross-section of bank stock returns: Evidence from JapanJournal of Asian Economics, 2011, vol. 22, issue 2, 99-114 Abstract: Abstract We propose a market-valued capital ratio as an indicator to gauge the riskiness of banks. In particular, we examine the cross-sectional relation between the market-valued capital ratio and stock returns of listed Japanese banks. It is found that banks with lower market-valued capital ratios have had higher returns on average than banks with higher market-valued capital ratios. However, we show that this negative relation between market-valued capital ratio and average stock returns could essentially be attributed to differences in exposure to risk factors. The market-valued capital ratio appears to proxy for sensitivity to common risk factors in bank stock returns. We also relate the cross-sectional variation in market-valued capital ratios to systematic patterns in relative profitability by showing that low market-valued capital ratio signals persistently poor profitability. Finally, we provide evidence to show that the market-valued capital ratio can indeed serve as a strong predictive indicator for bank's share performance during the financial crisis in the late 1990s, even after controlling for a variety of other traditional risk measures. Keywords: Market-valued; capital; ratio; BIS; capital; ratio; Cross-section; of; bank; stock; returns (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:asieco:v:22:y:2011:i:2:p:99-114 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Asian Economics is currently edited by C. Wiemer More articles in Journal of Asian Economics from Elsevier |
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