probabilities, on reduced-form credit risk stress testing. This type of uncertainty is omnipresent in most macroeconomic stress … testing applications due to short time series for banks' portfolio risk parameters and highly collinear macroeconomic … distributions and implied capital shortfalls by conducting a full-edged top-down credit risk stress test for over 1,500 German banks …

Standardized Approach leads to an up to 33% lower stress impact relative to the more risk-sensitive "pseudo-IRB" approach. …

Using a unique data set on German banks' loans to the German real economy, we investigate banks' credit risk. This data … banks, this percentage is less than eight percent. -- Credit risk ; systematic risk ; maturity ; stress tests …

requirements and, for example, have to ensure capital adequacy if the internal risk parameters are being stressed. The academic … scenarios which are selected on the basis of algorithms that consider historical characteristics of the risk factors …. Furthermore, banks' conventional credit risk models can be modified and used for stress testing. As stress testing is exposed to …

recourse to central bank finance is rather limited and does not affect the risk-taking behaviour of banks in the non …