Financial markets behaviour has increasingly become a reason of concern for the regulators worldwide. Hence, it becomes crucial for Central Bankers to be able to exert a certain degree of control on them. Through a dynamic assessment of the main Eurozone equity markets reaction to policy rate...

This paper proposes the Stata command estudy and illustrates how it can be used to perform an event study customizing the statistical framework, from the estimates of abnormal returns to the tests for their statistical significance. Our program significantly improves the existing modules both in...

Since macro-prudential stress tests have become the main instruments of the supervisory authorities toolkit, the debate on the effect of their results disclosure inflamed. Our work aims at providing a framework that, via a dynamic estimation of the betas, allows to observe the impact of the new...

It is common practice in the supervision of regulated banks to perform and disclose a simultaneous standardized assessment of their asset quality, organizational effectiveness, strategic viability and resilience to financial turmoil. Investigating the ECB 2014 Comprehensive Assessment and the...