Spotlight: How Do Capital Requirements Affect Loan Rates? Evidence from High Volatility Commercial Real Estate
Regulatory capital requirements for banks have been a topic of heated discussions by academicians, bankers, and policy makers for decades. Central to these discussions is how costly requiring banks to fund themselves with more equity (rather than cheaper deposits) is and how these possible regulatory costs are transmitted to bank borrowers. In a recently published RCFS paper, “How Do Capital Requirements Affect Loan Rates? Evidence from High Volatility Commercial Real… Read More »Spotlight: How Do Capital Requirements Affect Loan Rates? Evidence from High Volatility Commercial Real Estate