The European Central Bank (ECB) has finalized its comprehensive assessment of the solvency of the largest banks in the euro area and on October 26 disclosed the results of this assessment. In the present paper, Acharya and Steffen compare the outcomes of the ECB's assessment to their own...

The European Central Bank (ECB) has finalized its comprehensive assessment of the solvency of the largest banks in the euro area and on October 26 disclosed the results of this assessment. In the present paper, Acharya and Steffen compare the outcomes of the ECB's assessment to their own...

Forbearance is a practice of granting concessions to troubled borrowers, typically in the form of prolongation of maturity or refinancing of the loan. While economically useful in some circumstances, it can be used by banks in order to reduce the need for provisions and conceal potential losses....

We analyse the SRISK measure with respect to its usage as a benchmark for the ECB/EBA 2014 stress test. By regressing the ECB/EBA stress test impact and the SRISK stress impact on a set of factors that are commonly associated with bank credit losses and bank vulnerability, we find that the...

Bevor die Europäische Zentralbank die oberste Bankenaufsicht innerhalb der Bankenunion im November 2014 übernimmt, wird sie die 128 größten und systemrelevanten Banken des Euroraums einer umfassenden Bilanzprüfung unterziehen. Um die Konsolidierung im Bankensektor und den Aufbau der...

Die Banken im Euroraum befinden sich immer noch in einem Prozess der Bilanzbereinigung. Auch wenn sich die Kreditvergabe aktuell wieder leicht positiv entwickelt, vergaben viele Banken trotz der Fortschritte bei der Rekapitalisierung lange Zeit nur zögerlich Kredite. Gleichzeitig bauten sie...

Regulation needs effective supervision; but regulated entities may deviate with unobserved actions. For identification, we analyze banks, exploiting ECB's asset-quality-review (AQR) and supervisory security and credit registers. After AQR announcement, reviewed banks reduce riskier securities...

As we are moving toward a eurozone banking union, the European Central Bank (ECB) is going to take over the regulatory oversight of 128 banks in November 2014. To that end, the ECB conducted a comprehensive assessment of these banks, which included an asset quality review (AQR) and a stress...

Credibility is the bedrock of any crisis stress test. The use of stress tests to manage systemic risk was introduced by the U.S. authorities in 2009 in the form of the Supervisory Capital Assessment Program. Since then, supervisory authorities in other jurisdictions have also conducted similar...

Bevor die Europäische Zentralbank die oberste Bankenaufsicht innerhalb der Bankenunion im November 2014 übernimmt, wird sie die 128 größten und systemrelevanten Banken des Euroraums einer umfassenden Bilanzprüfung unterziehen. Um die Konsolidierung im Bankensektor und den Aufbau der...