Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/299509 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
EBA Staff Paper Series No. 4
Publisher: 
European Banking Authority (EBA), Paris La Défense
Abstract: 
There is increasing debate on whether official-sector stress tests are fit for purpose and deliver what they are designed for. In the EU, this discussion focuses on the costs and benefits of such a large-scale bottom-up exercise and on the possible options to improve its usefulness for banks, supervisors and the general public, but also on exploring ways to make it less burdensome. This paper discusses whether some improvements to the design of the EU-wide stress test could better align the incentives of the different stakeholders involved. In particular, the objective is to understand whether there is room for mitigating the beauty contest problem, namely the problem that banks are more interested in showing that they are outperforming others than in identifying actual risks in an adverse scenario.
Subjects: 
Stress test
bank
EBA
supervision
beauty contest
incentives
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ISBN: 
978-92-9245-641-2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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