Eine Auswertung der Lebensläufe von 426 Aufsichtsratsmitgliedern in den 29 größten deutschen Banken, die von Marcel Thum, ifo Dresden, und Harald Hau, INSEAD, Fontainebleau, vorgenommen wurde, zeigt, dass Finanzmarkt- und Bankerfahrung von Aufsichtsratsmitgliedern besonders in den...

The downfall of Credit Suisse should serve as a lesson that supervisory board competence determines the long-term risk of a bank. In a much-cited study, we investigated the relationship between competent board supervision and the performance of German banks during the 2008/2009 financial crisis....

This European Central Bank (ECB) publication - Stress Test Analytics for Macroprudential Purposes in the euro area (STAMP€) - offers a suite of analytical tools for those interested in stress-testing frameworks and has been developed by ECB staff over the past few years.

Macroprudential policy can comprise a broad range of issues and topics. This is clearly reflected in the second issue of the ECB's Macroprudential Bulletin. The Bulletin starts with the macroprudential effects of the EU-wide bank stress testing exercise. The first chapter of the Bulletin...