PRO-CYCLICAL EFFECT ON CAPITAL ADEQUACY OF COMMERCIAL BANKS IN CHINA.

The procyclicality of the regulatory capital requirement in the aftermath of the international finance crisis have been paid a lot of attention by researcher and regulators. It is pointed out that the risk-sensitive capital requirement in Basel Accord II drives the problem of procyclicality which amplified the economic cycle fluctuation and made the banking system a shock amplifier while not a shock absorber. In this paper, on the basis of China's 16 major commercial banks in 2004-2014 panel data, the researcher analyzes the relationship between macro-economic cycle and capital adequacy ratio to test whether there exists procyclical effect or not within. The empirical result shows that the capital adequacy ratio changes have procyclical effect on China's commercial banks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]