This Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog post advocates for the introduction of a Bayesian model that takes into account prior inputs in bank stress testing. Specifically, the priors would be the previous Federal Reserve adverse scenarios. Failure to consider these prior scenarios could...

In recent years, the question of how to prevent another crippling re-cession has become a prominent one. The answer provided by the Dodd-Frank Act is stress testing, which examines through economic models how banks would react to a bad turn of economic events, such as negative interest rates....

This article examines the impact of the new supervisory standards of Basel 2.5 and Basel III for bank trading portfolios with regards to the additional capital requirements developed to mitigate liquidity risk and credit risk. Using the incremental risk charge (IRC), the authors estimate risk...