In this paper, we study the impact of extreme events on the loan portfolios of the Greek banking system. These portfolios are grouped into three separate groups based on the size of the bank to which they belong, in particular, large, medium, and small size. A series of extreme scenarios was...

We show that banks' risk exposure in one asset category affects how they report regulatory risk weights for another asset category. Specifically, banks report lower credit risk weights for their loan portfolio when they face higher risk exposure in their trading book. This relationship is...

This paper studies the relationship between the riskiness of banks' assets and their average risk weight. Banks' initial risk weights explain about half of the variation in projected credit losses in the 2018 European Banking Authority stress test. In contrast to related papers, this paper also...