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Economics of capital adjustment in the US commercial banks: empirical analysis
Journal of Applied Economics
  • Faisal Abbas, University of Lahore
  • Shoaib Ali, Air University Islamabad
  • Ghulame Rubbaniy, Zayed University
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2021
Abstract

Using GMM framework on the data of the US commercial banks spanning over 2002 to 2018, this study shows that banks adjust their regulatory capital ratios faster than traditional capital ratios. Our results show that the speed of adjustment of regulatory capital ratios and traditional capital ratios increases in bank capital adequacy and bank liquidity, respectively. We also find that the speed of adjustment of regulatory capital ratios of too-big-to-fail banks is lower than well-capitalized, adequately-capitalized, nationally-chartered, and state-chartered banks. In addition, the speed of adjustment of regulatory capital ratios of commercial banks is higher in the post-crisis period than the pre-crisis era. Although scholars suggest that adjustment of capital ratios through rebalancing liabilities is more beneficial to the banks, our findings show that banks also use their assets side of balance sheet to rebalance their capital ratios.

Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Disciplines
Keywords
  • bank charters,
  • Capital ratio,
  • regulatory ratio,
  • speed of capital adjustment,
  • tier-I ratio
Scopus ID

85102290246

Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
Indexed in Scopus
Yes
Open Access
Yes
Open Access Type
Gold: This publication is openly available in an open access journal/series
Citation Information
Faisal Abbas, Shoaib Ali and Ghulame Rubbaniy. "Economics of capital adjustment in the US commercial banks: empirical analysis" Journal of Applied Economics Vol. 24 (2021) p. 71 - 90 ISSN: <p><a href="https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/issn/1514-0326" target="_blank">1514-0326</a></p>
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/ghulame-rubbaniy/6/