Bank capital buffer, leverage ratio and portfolio risk-return decisions : evidence from Malaysia and Indonesia / Ahmad Kemo Touray

• Main Author: Touray, Ahmad Kemo
• Format: Thesis
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: HD Industries. Land use. Labor; HF Commerce
• Online Access: http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/5663/2/Cover_Page.pdf; http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/5663/1/0_CAPITAL_RISK_and_RETURN_FRONT_PAGE_TOC.pdf; http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/5663/3/THE_STUDY_OF_BANK_CAPITAL_BUFFER%2C_LEVERAGE_RATIO_AND_PORTFOLIO_RISK%2D_RETURN_DECISIONS_edit.pdf; http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/5663/

Suboptimal decisions on capital and risk return mixes at banks and corporations in pre-crisis East Asia were blamed more for the 1997/1998 banking and financial crisis. This study investigates, (after a decade of regulatory reforms), how bank managers, in post-crisis East Asia, make short term capit...