The EU’s transposition of Basel II into European law has been done through the Capital Requirements Directive (CRD). Although the Directive establishes, in general, uniform rules to set capital requirements across European countries, there are some areas where the Directive allows some...

Los colchones de capital para las entidades de importancia sistémica (EIS) fueron diseñados para mitigar los riesgos que suponen estos bancos grandes y complejos. Mediante un modelo de datos de panel para una muestra de bancos europeos que cotizan en bolsa se demuestra que los requerimientos...

Artículo de revista ; The growth of crypto-assets in recent years, their potential use as a means of exchange or saving, and their possible risks to financial stability, arising, among other things, from their interconnections with the banking sector, have drawn the attention of national and...

Over the past years, several countries around the world have adopted a system of prudential prompt corrective action (PCA). The European Union countries are being encouraged to adopt PCA by policy analysts who explicitly call for its adoption. To date, most of the discussion on PCA has focused...

In this paper, various econometric methodologies are used to attempt to assess whether the levy on lending introduced by Law 38/2022 has since had a differential effect on institutions’ performance. This is an extremely complex exercise, since, added to the inherent difficulty in identifying...