The cyclical behaviour of European bank capital buffers

Using an unbalanced panel of accounting data from 1997 to 2004 and controlling for individual bank costs and risk, we find capital buffers of the banks in the EU15 have a significant negative co-movement with the cycle. For banks in the accession countries there is significant positive co-movement....

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Main Authors: Terhi Jokipii, Alistair Milne
Format: Default Article
Published: 2008
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/15157
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