July 2020: New VoxEU Column – The COVID-19 threat to financial stability in Europe
By Henk Jan Reinders, Dirk Schoenmaker, and Mathijs van Dijk The severe economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic could threaten financial stability. Since accounting-based methods report loan losses with a delay, this column adopts a real-time, market-based assessment of the impact on corporate loan portfolios. Using European stock market data, it estimates that the market-implied[…]