Download or read book The Right Balance for Banks written by William R. Cline and published by Policy Analyses in International Economics. This book was released on 2017 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William R. Cline analyzes whether reforms of capital requirements for banks have gone far enough. He calculates how much higher bank capital reduces the risk of banking crises. This study also challenges the recent "too much finance" literature, which holds that in advanced countries banking sectors are already too large and are curbing growth.