Impact of the COVID-19 event on U.S. banks’ financial soundness

Kwamie Dunbar

Research in International Business and Finance, 2022, vol. 59, issue C

Abstract: This study’s primary innovation is the use of changes in investors’ forward-looking net long hedging choices —an indicator of investors’ risk-based growth expectations—to determine the effect of a change in the Federal Reserve’s capital buffer requirement on banks’ financial soundness. I demonstrate that the net hedging factor data significantly reveals the causal relationships between the financial soundness indicators and the Federal Reserve’s capital buffer requirement. My results also show that an innovation that lowers the banking systems’ capital buffer requirement improves both regulatory capital and Tier-1 capital.

Keywords: COVID-19 pandemic; Regulatory tier-1 capital; Net long hedging factor; Financial soundness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E44 G12 G14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ribaf.2021.101520

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