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Adjustment Costs, Errors In Risk Weights, And Banks' Balance Sheets: The 1988 Basel Accord Revisited, Kevin T. Jacques, Elva Coadari, John Thornton Jan 2010

Adjustment Costs, Errors In Risk Weights, And Banks' Balance Sheets: The 1988 Basel Accord Revisited, Kevin T. Jacques, Elva Coadari, John Thornton

Kevin T Jacques

In the context of a profit-maximization model that recognizes both non-homogeneous adjustment costs and errors in risk weights, this paper examines the question of why different banks exhibited different responses to implementation of the 1988 Accord.


Risk-Based Capital, Portfolio Risk, And Bank Capital: A Simultaneous Equations Approach, Kevin T. Jacques, Peter Nigro Jan 1997

Risk-Based Capital, Portfolio Risk, And Bank Capital: A Simultaneous Equations Approach, Kevin T. Jacques, Peter Nigro

Kevin T Jacques

This paper examines the impact the risk-based capital standards had on bank capital and portfolio risk during the first year the risk-based standards were in effect.