TY - BOOK AU - ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Bank Capital and Risk-Taking: The Impact of Capital Regulation, Charter Value, and the Business Cycle T2 - Kieler Studien, SN - 9783540485452 AV - Libro electrónico U1 - 657.8333 23 PY - 2007/// CY - Berlin, Heidelberg PB - Springer Berlin Heidelberg KW - Economics KW - Microeconomics KW - Finance KW - Banks and banking KW - Economics/Management Science KW - Finance /Banking KW - Financial Economics N1 - Theoretical Literature -- Capital and Risk Adjustments after an Increase in Capital Requirements -- Capital and Risk Adjustments over the Business Cycle -- The Disciplining Effect of Charter Value on Risk-Taking -- Final Remarks; ZDB-2-SBE N2 - The year-long consultations on Basel II mirror the international popularity of capital requirements as a regulatory instrument. Yet, the impact of capital reá quirements on banks' behavior is not fully understood. The aim of this study is to contribute to this understanding by answering the following questions: How do banks adjust capital and risk after an increase in capital requirements? How do banks adjust their regulatory capital buffer over the business cycle? And what is the impact of banks' charter value on the regulatory capital buffer? The research undertaken for this study has benefited from support in terms of ideas, research facilities, and, not least, financial funding. My thanks go first of all to Claudia M. Buch for her constant encouragement, her continuous guidance, and her confidence in my research ideas. My thanks go also to the Kiel Institute for World Economics and its staff for providing a very fertile academic ground for my research and for providing excellent research facilities. In fact, conductá ing this study would not have been possible without the support of my colleagues at the Kiel Institute and elsewhere. In particular, I am grateful to Horst Siebert for providing me the freedom to pursue this topic. My special thanks go to Jorg Breitung, Kai Carstensen, and Dieter Urban for providing input on econometric issues. I am also grateful to Andrea Schertler for the long and productive discusá sions I had on various parts of this study UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-48545-2 ER -