
The Global Macroeconomic Costs of Raising Bank Capital Adequacy Requirements »
Journal Issue
Volume/Issue: 2012/44
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Francis Vitek , and Scott Roger
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781463936457.001
ISBN: 9781463936457
Keywords: Basel III, inflation, monetary fund, Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy, Open Economy Macroeconomics, Financial Institutions and Services: Government Policy and Regulation,
This paper examines the transitional macroeconomic costs of a synchronized global increase in bank capital adequacy requirements under Basel III, as well as a capital increase covering globally systemically importa...