“…Empirical literature on bank capital and liquidity creation is divided between studies that support the financial fragility theory which proposes a negative relationship between bank capital and liquidity creation (see, Distinguin et al, 2013;Tran et al, 2016;Huu Vu and Thanh Ngo, 2023;Mdaghri and Oubdi, 2021;D ıaz and Huang, 2017;Le, 2018;Le and Pham, 2021;Evans and Haq, 2022;Sinha and Grover, 2019;Toh, 2019) and studies that support the riskabsorption hypothesis which predicts a positive relationship between bank capital and liquidity creation (see, Gupta et al, 2023;Horv ath et al, 2014;Fu et al, 2016;Tran et al, 2016;Le, 2018;Casu et al, 2019;Hsieh et al, 2022;Yahaya et al, 2023;Abbas et al, 2023;Zheng and Cronje, 2019;Kinini et al, 2023;Mdaghri and Oubdi, 2021). For instance, Hsieh et al (2022) investigate the relationship between bank capital and liquidity creation in 35 Asian countries from 2001 to 2018.…”