To finance resolution funds, the regulatory toolkit has been expanded in many countries by bank levies. In addition, these levies are often designed to reduce incentives for banks to rely excessively on wholesale funding resulting in high leverage ratios. At the same time, corporate income taxation biases banks’ capital structure towards debt financing in light of the deductibility of interest on debt. ...
Regulatory bank levies set incentives for banks to reduce leverage. At the same time, corporate income taxation makes funding through debt more attractive. In this paper, we explore how regulatory levies affect bank capital structure, depending on corporate income taxation. Based on bank balance sheet data from 2006 to 2014 for a panel of EU-banks, our analysis yields three main results: The introduction ...
Following the global financial crisis of 2008/2009, many European countries introduced bank levies to enable financial institutions to share in the costs of future banking crises via resolution and restructuring funds. Simultaneously, bank levies can set an incentive for banks to reduce their leverage, thereby achieving a more stable capital structure. Using information from banks’ balance sheets, ...
Viele europäische Länder haben nach der globalen Finanzkrise 2008/09 Abgaben von Banken eingeführt, um die Finanzinstitute über Abwicklungs- und Restrukturierungsfonds an den Kosten möglicher künftiger Bankenkrisen zu beteiligen. Gleichzeitig kann durch solche Abgaben für Banken ein Anreiz zu einem geringeren Verschuldungsgrad und damit einer stabileren Kapitalstruktur gesetzt werden. Der vorliegende ...
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