Bank internal ratings of corporate clients are intended to quantify the expected likelihood of future borrower defaults. This paper develops a comprehensive framework for evaluating the quality of standard rating systems. We suggest a number of principles that ought to be met by 'good rating...

Banking regulation and supervision have a key role to play in realising the EU’s climate change objectives. In this article we analyse the EU-level initiatives currently underway to green the banking system, in particular with regard to the microprudential rulebook. We document how regulators...

The global financial crisis (GFC) has renewed interest in emergency liquidity support (sometimes referred to as 'Lender of Last Resort') provided by central banks to financial institutions and challenged the traditional way of conducting these operations. Despite a vast literature on the topic,...

Untersuchungsgegenstand des Projekts sind die Übertragungsmechanismen (contagion) der Risiken in Finanzsystemen durch Verhaltenssymmetrien (z.B. durch Risikomodelle und ihre regulierte Umsetzung), Intransparenz (z.B. über Beteiligungsgesellschaften etwa im Bereich Private Equity) und Moral...

We develop an operational model of information contagion and show how it may be integrated into a mainstream, top-down, stress-testing framework to quantify systemic risk. The key transmission mechanism is a two-way interaction between the beliefs of secondary market investors and the...

This Technical Assistance report on Bulgaria reviews the formalization and implementation of a comprehensive Supervisory and Review and Evaluation Process (SREP) that includes an explicit and detailed supervisory Pillar 2 capital requirement. The paper highlights that unsound banking practices...

This paper studies the relationship between the riskiness of banks' assets and their average risk weight. Banks' initial risk weights explain about half of the variation in projected credit losses in the 2018 European Banking Authority stress test. In contrast to related papers, this paper also...