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Comment: Financial stress tests may do more harm than good, but reform remains a hard sell

By Jack Schickler ( August 2, 2021, 09:01 GMT | Comment) -- Financial-sector stress tests have long been the favored tool of bank and insurance supervisors keen to open up opaque balance sheets and check individual capital requirements, and they are extending into areas like fund liquidity and climate change. But recent studies suggest that inaccurate or secretive tests can actually harm financial stability — though that appears to be doing little to dampen enthusiasm for the current messy compromise.Financial-sector stress tests have long been supervisors’ favored method of setting tailored capital requirements, opening up opaque balance sheets and ensuring that a shock along the lines of 2008 won't upend markets....

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