Finance & Investing · Banking & Financial Institutions
A topic within Banking & Financial Institutions, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Finance & Investing.
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Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
Sets the first internationally agreed minimum ratio of capital to risk-weighted assets for banks, making risk-weighting itself — not a flat leverage ratio — the basis for how much capital a bank must hold.
Anat R. Admati, Peter M. DeMarzo, Martin F. Hellwig & Paul Pfleiderer
Rebuts, one by one, the arguments banks make against holding more equity capital, arguing that equity is not actually more expensive for a bank than debt once its lower risk is properly accounted for.