be relieved. This would be facilitated by more efficient insolvency procedures and further development of non-bank …

assesses the effect of the NIRP on the net interest rate margins of the euro area banks using quarterly consolidated bank level … policy rates. The econometric results confirm the effect of the interest rate level on bank profitability and, in some … specifications, also suggest an additional negative effect on bank profitability in the period of negative euro area short …

deteriorate further, which could require significant bank recapitalisation. Updated bottom-up (i.e. loan by loan) stress tests are … assumptions should be made public. The creation of the Bank Asset Management Company (BAMC) should allow recognition of problems …