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Capital standards for banks: the evolving Basel Accord

The Basel Capital Accord has served as the framework for capital adequacy standards for internationally active banks since 1988. The agreement is widely viewed as having achieved its main objectives, including the promotion of stability in world financial markets. In recent years, however, it has become less appropriate for the world's largest banks, which are increasingly complex and engage in financial transactions unimagined when the agreement was adopted. Now proposals are being considered to refine the framework to take account of the changes in banking and the banking system over the ...
Federal Reserve Bulletin , Issue Sep

Conference Paper
Small business access to capital and credit

Proceedings , Paper 755

Conference Paper
Reforming bank capital requirements: a rating agency perspective

Proceedings , Paper 671

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Commentary on 3 papers on incentive-compatible regulation: views on the precommitment approach

Economic Policy Review , Volume 4 , Issue Oct , Pages 155-159

Report
Why did thrift goodwill matter in 1989?

The Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 limits thrift goodwill that can be counted as regulatory capital. This paper examines if and why the goodwill clause adversely affected the market value of thrifts. The main findings are that goodwill had a large negative effect on the stock returns of low-capital thrifts in 1989 and that the negative effect persisted in the following two years. These findings suggest that a reduced put option value accounted for a large portion of the stock-price decline. The role of asymmetric information appears to have been small.
Staff Reports , Paper 51

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Are there "bank effects" in borrowers' costs of funds? Evidence from a matched sample of borrowers and banks

We use a large matched sample of individual loans, borrowers, and banks to investigate whether bank financial health affects terms of lending, holding constant proxies for borrower risk and information costs. In particular, we focus on measuring effects of borrower and bank characteristics on loan interest rates; we also investigate implications of borrower and bank characteristics for indirect measures of credit availability. ; Our principal findings are six. First, even after controlling for proxies for borrower risk and information costs, the cost of borrowing from low-capital banks is ...
Staff Reports , Paper 78

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Measuring the relative marginal cost of debt and capital for banks (summary)

Economic Policy Review , Volume 4 , Issue Oct , Pages 45

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Risk-based capital standards and bank portfolios

FRBSF Economic Letter

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Pilot exercise - pre-commitment approach to market risk

This paper was presented at the conference "Financial services at the crossroads: capital regulation in the twenty-first century" as part of session 4, "Incentive-compatible regulations: views on the precommitment approach." The conference, held at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on February 26-27, 1998, was designed to encourage a consensus between the public and private sectors on an agenda for capital regulation in the new century.
Economic Policy Review , Volume 4 , Issue Oct , Pages 131-136

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