Capital Adequacy and Efficiency: An Empirical Study of the U.S. Banking System

This paper provides an empirical analysis of the factors that determine capital adequacy of U.S. banks in the period between the years 2006 and 2012. It pays particular attention to the relationship between efficiency and capital adequacy. Efficiency results were obtained using a standard translog...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thakar, Sebastian
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2014
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/27544/