Impacts of the Basle Capital Standard on Japanese Banks' Behavior

Takatoshi Ito () and Yuri Sasaki

No 6730, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This paper examines how the risk based capital standards, the so-called Basle Accord between 1990 and 1993. As the Japanese stock prices fell, banks' latent capital gains, which are part of tier II capital, became smaller. Empirical findings are consistent with a view that banks with lower capital ratios tended to issue more subordinated debts (tier II) and to reduce lending (risk assets).

JEL-codes: G18 G21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cfn and nep-ifn
Note: IFM ME
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (23)

Published as Ito, Takatoshi and Yuri Nagataki Sasaki. "Impacts Of The Basle Capital Standard On Japanese Banks' Behavior," Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2002, v16(3,Sep), 372-397.

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.nber.org/papers/w6730.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Impacts of the Basle Capital Standard on Japanese Banks' Behavior (2002)
Working Paper: Impacts of the Basle Capital Standard on Japanese Banks' Behavior (1998)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nbr:nberwo:6730

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
http://www.nber.org/papers/w6730

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc National Bureau of Economic Research, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().