analyzes the implications of the change from IAS 39 to IFRS 9 in the context of bank resilience. We shed light on two effects … bank resilience through lower capital levels. In the absence of archival data of IFRS 9 and their potential biases due to … the COVID-19 pandemic, we use the European bank stress test results as a natural experiment, in which all banks are …

regulation. The main concern is that the new risk-sensitive bank capital regulation (Basel II) may amplify business cycle …