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How do banks respond to changes in capital requirements as a result of the stress tests? Does the disclosure of stress test results matter? To answer these questions, we study the impact of European stress tests on banks’ lending, their corresponding risk-taking, the ensuing effect on their...
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the LRR is no longer the binding capital constraint on them. If the LRR is lower than the average bank's IRB requirement …
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The regulatory use of banks' internal models aims at making capital requirements more accurate and reducing regulatory arbitrage, but may also give banks incentives to choose their risk models strategically. Current policy answers to this problem include the use of risk-weight floors and...
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The paper studies the central bank collateral framework and its impact on banks’ liquidity under an adverse stress test … four funding channels: unsecured loans, asset sales, private repurchase agreements, or Central Bank lending. We test three … highlight the heterogeneous effects across different jurisdictions and financial institutions. We find that bank equity losses …
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We study the impact of macroprudential capital buffers on banking groups' lending and risk-taking decisions, also investigating implications for internal capital markets. For identification, we exploit heterogeneity in buffers applied to other systemically important institutions, using...
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estimated while controlling for the macroeconomic environment. An increase in bank' balance sheet risk is shown to increase the …
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Recent policy discussion includes the introduction of diversification requirements for sovereign bond portfolios of European banks. In this paper, we evaluate the possible effects of these constraints on risk and diversification in the sovereign bond portfolios of the major European banks....
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This paper addresses the trade-off between additional loss-absorbing capacity and potentially higher bank risk …
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We propose an empirical framework to assess joint and conditional probabilities of credit events from CDS prices observed in the market. Our model is based on a dynamic skewed-t distribution that captures many salient features of CDS data, including skewed and heavy-tailed changes in the price...
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crucial complementarities between supervision and monetary policy: centralised supervision offsets excessive bank risk …
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