This paper studies how a banking supervisor should design a bank stress test. The test directly provides public information about a bank's stress resilience, which is a noisy indicator of the bank's true capitalization level. Moreover, the test result affects incentives for information...

Despite increased need for top-down stress tests of financial institutions, performing them is challenging owing to the absence of granular information on banks’ trading and loan portfolios. To deal with these data shortcomings, this paper presents a market-based structural top-down stress...

This article summarizes the European Union’s stress testing exercises and future priorities. The 2011 solvency stress testing was marked by methodology and data. The exercise forced banks to increase the quality and quantity of capitalization. This test has many controversial issues, but the...

This Analysis presents in plain language the main features of the Asset Quality Review and the EU-wide stress test 2014 and discusses some key issues in the interpretation of the forthcoming 2014 stress test results. It comments on selected policy issues in the implementation of the asset...

This Analysis presents in plain language the main features of the Asset Quality Review and the EU-wide stress test 2014 and discusses some key issues in the interpretation of the forthcoming 2014 stress test results. It comments on selected policy issues in the implementation of the asset...