Bank regulation and capital augmentations in Spain

  1. Santiago Carbó Valverde
Revista:
Working papers = Documentos de trabajo: Serie EC - (Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas)

Año de publicación: 1993

Número: 6

Páginas: 1-54

Tipo: Documento de Trabajo

Resumen

The increasing importance of bank prudential regulation in an era offinancial liberalization and intense competition, together with the lack ofempirical research on capital adequacy in the Spanish banking sector, shapethe motivation for this research. This paper examines the impact of thesolvency regulation on capital augmentations of banking institutions operatingin Spain.