Macroeconomic stress-testing banks: A survey of methodologies

Stress-Testing the Banking System: Methodologies and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 37-67

  Drehmann, Mathias ^a  

^a BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS   (Switzerland)

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EID: 84865828569     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511635618.005     Document Type: Chapter

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