Hirtle, Beverly J.; Kovner, Anna; Vickery, James; … - 2014
The CLASS model is a top-down capital stress testing framework that projects the effect of different macroeconomic … industry capital gap relative to a target ratio at different points in time under a common stressful macroeconomic scenario …. This estimated capital gap began rising four years before the financial crisis and peaked at the end of 2008. The gap has …
