Auditing and bank capital regulation.

Economic Quarterly | September 22, 2004| | Copyright

Capital regulations for banks are based on the idea that the riskier a bank's assets are, the more capital it should hold. The international 1988 Basel Accord among bank regulators set bank capital requirements to be a fixed percentage of the face value of assets. The only risk variation between assets was based on easily identifiable characteristics, such as whether it was a commercial loan or a government debt.

The proposed revision to the Accord, commonly called Basel II, is an attempt to improve upon the crude risk measures of the 1988 Accord. Under Basel II, ...

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