Are the EU bank capital shortfalls really that bad?

Shortly after the publication of the  2016 EBA stress test results, Viral Acharya, Diane Pierret, and Sascha Steffen (APS) presented a paper that identifies capital shortfalls that are significantly larger than EBA's shortfall calculations reveal.

Reuters quickly picked up the highlight of the paper: "Using the Fed's approach, the 51 European banks showe…