Testing macroprudential stress tests: The risk of regulatory risk weights

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Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
Collection
Publications
Titre
Testing macroprudential stress tests: The risk of regulatory risk weights
Périodique
Journal of Monetary Economics
Auteur⸱e⸱s
Acharya  V., Engle  R., Pierret  D.
ISSN
0304-3932
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
07/2014
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
65
Pages
36-53
Langue
anglais
Résumé
We compare the capital shortfall measured by regulatory stress tests, to that of a benchmark methodology the - "V-Lab stress test" - that employs only publicly available market data. We find that when capital shortfalls are measured relative to risk-weighted assets, the ranking of financial institutions is not well correlated to the ranking of the V-Lab stress test, whereas rank correlations increase when required capitalization is a function of total assets. We show that the risk measures used in risk-weighted assets are cross-sectionally uncorrelated with market measures of risk, as they do not account for the "risk that risk will change." Furthermore, the banks that appeared to be best capitalized relative to risk-weighted assets were no better than the rest when the European economy deteriorated into the sovereign debt crisis in 2011.
Mots-clé
Macroprudential regulation, stress test, systemic risk, risk-weighted assets
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