We analyse a sample of systemically important European financial intermediaries that fall under the Single Supervisory Mechanism, which is part of the new institutional supervisory architecture of the Eurozone. Theory suggests that herding among financial intermediaries raises cross-sectional...

Purpose – We analyse the importance of regulatory requirements and interbank connections to financial stability by looking at a large number of European and UK banks.Design/Methodology – We model interbank contagion using insights from the Susceptible Infected Recovered model. We construct...

We propose the use of simulation in order to obtain a statistical significance measure of the least median of squares (LMS) regression coefficients. We shuffle the values of the dependent variable many times (e.g. 100), so as to preserve their distribution, and we calculate the LMS regression...

Surrogate Data Analysis (SDA) is a statistical hypothesis testing framework for the determination of weak chaos in time series dynamics. Existing SDA procedures do not account properly for the rich structures observed in stock return sequences, attributed to the presence of heteroscedasticity,...

In this work we propose the use of simulation for the solution of the Cronbach's alpha statistical significance problem. This coefficient measures the reliability of a questionnaire's answers. Many analytical tests have been developed over the years which gave birth to very complicated formulas...

Surrogate data analysis (SDA) is a statistical hypothesis testing framework for the determination of weak chaos in time series dynamics. Existing SDA procedures do not account properly for the rich structures observed in stock return sequences, attributed to the presence of heteroscedasticity,...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the importance of interbank connections and shocks on banks’ capital ratios to financial stability by looking at a network comprising a large number of European and UK banks. Design/methodology/approach – The authors model interbank...