Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/70667 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2008-27
Publisher: 
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
Abstract: 
This paper extends the literature on bank capital structure by modeling capital structure as a function of important public policy and bank regulatory characteristics of the home country, as well as of bank-specific variables, country-level macroeconomic conditions, and country-level financial characteristics. The model is estimated with annual data from 1992 to 2005 for an unbalanced panel of the seventy-eight largest private banks in the world headquartered in twelve industrial countries. The results indicate that bank capital ratios are significantly affected in the hypothesized directions by most of the bank-specific variables. Several of the country characteristic and policy variables are also significant with the predicted sign: Banks maintain higher capital ratios in home countries in which the bank sector is relatively smaller and in countries that practice prompt corrective actions more actively, have more stringent capital requirements, and have more effective corporate governance structures.
Subjects: 
capital requirements
country public and regulatory policies
large banks
JEL: 
G21
G29
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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