Optimal equity capital requirements for large Swiss banks

Abstract Ten years after the worst financial crisis of the post-war period, Switzerland has established a Too-Big-To-Fail (TBTF) framework. Under this framework, the two large Swiss banks are subject to substantial capital requirements. It is not obvious whether the TBTF capital requirements are suf...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Georg Junge, Peter Kugler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2018-08-01
Series:Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41937-018-0025-z