The financial stability of the commercial banking sector remains one of the critical responsibilities of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). Weak banks cause instability in the financial system, triggering depositor runs. While several studies covered the prompt corrective action framework (PCA)...

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...

Relying on confidential supervisory data related to the 2016 EU-wide stress test, this paper presents novel empirical evidence that supervisory scrutiny associated to stress testing has a disciplining effect on bank risk. We find that banks that participated in the 2016 EU-wide stress test...