Korean Banks' Responses to the Strengthening of Capital Adequacy Requirements

I. Song

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Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to examine Korean banks' responses to the Basle risk-weighted capital adequacy requirements implemented in 1993. The analysis indicates that while some cosmetic adjustementd might have been made by partial recognition of unrealized stock losses and expected loan losses, efforts to increase capital in ways that effectively reduced risk exposure seemed to dominate the response to strenthened capital requirements.

Keywords: KOREA; BANKS; CAPITAL (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 47 pages
Date: 1998
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