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Stress testing programs and credit risk opacity of banks: USA vs Europe

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  • Abad, Pilar
  • Robles, M.-Dolores
  • Alonso Orts, Carlos

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Regulators strengthened banking supervision in the aftermath of the Great Financial Crisis by stress testing banks intending to increase the amount of information available about the risks they face, improving their transparency and restoring market confidence. This study examines whether the results of stress tests conducted between 2009 and 2019 in the US and the EU have reduced the opacity of information about banks' credit risk. We study changes in banking sector opacity around the disclosure of stress test results in a panel data framework. We measure opacity by discrepancies in bank credit ratings issued by different agencies. The findings indicate a lower opacity level after disclosing the US test results. The most significant reduction occurs for systemic banks with higher leverage that fail the test. The European testing programme has specific disclosure features that could justify that the effect of disclosure of stress test results is more attenuated for EU banks. Some indirect evidence suggests that differences in stress test programmes and banking sector structure between the two regions may explain the result.

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  • Abad, Pilar & Robles, M.-Dolores & Alonso Orts, Carlos, 2023. "Stress testing programs and credit risk opacity of banks: USA vs Europe," Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, Elsevier, vol. 89(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:intfin:v:89:y:2023:i:c:s1042443123001440
    DOI: 10.1016/j.intfin.2023.101876
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    Keywords

    Stress tests; Banking sector; Information opacity; Split rating; Rating distribution; USA and Europe;
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    JEL classification:

    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
    • G14 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Information and Market Efficiency; Event Studies; Insider Trading
    • G28 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Government Policy and Regulation
    • M48 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Accounting - - - Government Policy and Regulation
    • C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models

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