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The Impact of Regulatory Capital Pressure on Profitability and Risk: Evidence from Tunisian Banks

In: Banking Resilience and Global Financial Stability

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  • Rim Zakraoui
  • Dorra Mezzez Hmaied

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This paper analyses the effect of regulatory pressure on bank behavior, using a sample of Tunisian banks covering the period 2005–2020. First, the paper examines the impact of regulatory capital on bank profitability and risk. Second, it contributes to the literature which has received scant attention from researchers investigating the nonlinear impact of regulatory pressure on bank behavior. Third, we consider different determinants of bank profitability and risk. Finally, we use both static and dynamic models to test for the persistence of bank profitability and risk, as well as to make sure that the results are not biased by endogeneity. The results suggest that regulatory capital pressure improves bank profitability and stability. This effect is, however, conditioned by the existence of a certain threshold, after which stringent capital regulation may have adverse effects. Our results have important policy implications on optimal bank capital regulation.

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  • Rim Zakraoui & Dorra Mezzez Hmaied, 2024. "The Impact of Regulatory Capital Pressure on Profitability and Risk: Evidence from Tunisian Banks," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Sabri Boubaker & Marwa Elnahass (ed.), Banking Resilience and Global Financial Stability, chapter 5, pages 115-147, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:wschap:9781800614321_0005
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    Keywords

    Bank capital; Capital Buffers; Financial Stability; Macroprudential Regulation; Systemic Risks; Accounting Standards; Bank Stability; Financial Reporting; Local GAAP; IAS/IFRS; Lending Risk; Bank Capitalization; Bank Risk-Taking; Credit Risk; Asian Banks; Stability; Financial Development; Banking System; Growth; Regression; Human Resources; Trade: Population; Emerging Economies; Human Capital; Financial Stability; Intellectual Capital Efficiency; Human Capital Efficiency; Structural Capital Efficiency; Relational Capital Efficiency; Resources Based Theory; System Generalize Method of Moments; Competitive Environment; Islamic Banks; Asian Countries; Banking; Regulatory Capital; Bank Performance; Basel Accord; Profitability; Risk; Minimal Capital Requirements; Political Instability; Bank Supervision; 2SLS; Financial Institutions; Bank Holding Companies; Great Recession: FDIC; Financial Markets; Financial Crises; Economic Recessions; Heterogeneity; Systemic Risk; Dodd Frank; Foreign Exchange; Systemic Risk; Turkish Banking Sector; Volatility; Foreign Loans; Domestic Loans; Total Assets; Total Credits; Total Deposits; Interest Rates; Financial Crisis; Risk Management; Competency Development; Banks; Integrated; Resilience; Uncertainty; Pandemic; Risk; Actionable; Financial Stability; Systemic Risk; Crisis Management; Bank Recovery and Resolution; Capital Requirements; Climate Physical Risk; Climate Transition Risk; Digital Finance; Safety Net; Twin Transition; Market Illiquidity; Monetary Policy; Bank Lending Channel; Banks; Shocks; Loan Supply; OECD Countries; Financial Crisis; Interest Rates; Transmission Mechanism; European Monetary Union; European Central Bank; ECB Governing Council; Expansionary Monetary Policy; Trilemma; TARGET2-Balance; Inflation; Transmission Protection Instrument (TPI); ECB Anti-Fragmentation Instrument; Pandemic Emergency Purchase Program (PEPP); Credit-to-GDP Gap; Out-of-Sample Forecasts; Augmented Credit Gap; Countercyclical Capital Buffer; Credit Gap; Decision-making Process; Basel Gap; Forecasting Gaps; One-Sided Gap Series; Two-Sided Gap Series; Altman; Z-Score; Economic Distress; Kazakhstan; Banks; Emerging Market; Multiple Discriminant Analysis; Financial Health; Prediction Accuracy; Wilks' Approach; Direct Approach; Microfinance; Microfinance Institutions; Global Financial Crisis; Covid-19; Social Outreach; Financial Sustainability; Operational Self-Sufficiency; NGOs; Capital Structure; Legal Status; Liquidity Hoarding; Economic Policy Uncertainty; Qatari Banks; Islamic Banks; Endogeneity; Instrumental Variable Approach; Economic Blockade; Asset-Side Liquidity Hoarding; Liability-Side Liquidity Hoarding; Gulf Cooperation Council;
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    JEL classification:

    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
    • G24 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Investment Banking; Venture Capital; Brokerage
    • G2 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services
    • G28 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Government Policy and Regulation

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