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Macro-prudential authorities need to assess medium-term downside risks to the real economy, caused by severe financial shocks. Before activating policy measures, they also need to consider their short-term negative impact. This gives rise to a risk management problem, an inter-temporal trade-off...
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results enhanced price discrimination as the impact on bank CDS spreads and equity prices tended to be stronger for the weaker …
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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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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 …
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run simulations of bank valuations and asset prices under a set of stress scenarios. …
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capital and liquidity ratios, the leverage ratio plays a key role in determining a bank's IRS trading activity. 5) Also, after … mandatory central clearing, there is still a large dispersion in IRS transaction prices, which is partly determined by bank …
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We study the allocation of interest rate risk within the European banking sector using novel data. Banks' exposure to interest rate risk is small on aggregate, but heterogeneous in the cross-section. In contrast to conventional wisdom, net worth is increasing in interest rates for approximately...
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We address the question to what extent a central bank can de-risk its balance sheet by unconventional monetary policy … operations. To this end, we propose a novel risk measurement framework to empirically study the time-variation in central bank … portfolio credit risks associated with such operations. The framework accommodates a large number of bank and sovereign …
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We study spillovers from bank to sovereign risk in the euro area using difference specifications around the European … Central Bank's release of stress test results for 130 significant banks on October 26, 2014. We document that following this … information release bank equity prices in stressed countries declined. Surprisingly, bank risk in stressed countries was not …
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