Risk analysis and scenario testing are two of the core activities carried out by economists at central banks. With the increasing adoption of machine learning to enhance decision-support systems, and the amount of collected data spiking, institutions provide countless use-cases for the...

The current economic policy discussion on financial integration in the European Union concentrates on cross-border mergers. We study the impact of cross-border lending in a theoretical model where banks acquire either hard or soft information on borrowing firms and predict that the closer firms...

These guidelines provide harmonised definitions and templates for the funding plans of credit institutions mainly as a response to the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB) Recommendation 2012/02(1) on the funding of credit institutions and, in particular, Recommendation A.4, addressed to the EBA,...