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Nearly fifty years of striving to achieve the promise of Shannon's noisy channel coding theorem had come to an end

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Kirchheim / Teck: Jürgen Schweier

Bank Capital and Risk-Taking Munzinger Str. 9 The Development of Thrift isThe year long consultations on Basel II mirror the international popularity of capital requirements as a regulatory instrument. Yet, the impact of capital re 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