A mechanism is proposed that aims to reduce the risk of a banking sector liquidity crisis�which is a quintessentially systemic event and thus the object of macroprudential policy�and moderate the effects of a crisis should one occur. The instrument would give banks more incentive to build up...

Giving stress tests a macroprudential perspective requires (i) incorporating general equilibrium dimensions, so that the outcome of the test depends not only on the size of the shock and the buffers of individual institutions but also on their behavioral responses and their interactions with...