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Using unique data of a survey among small and medium-sized German banks, we analyze various aspects of risk management over a short-term and medium-term horizon. We especially analyze the effect of a 200-bp increase in the interest level. We find that, in the first year, the impairments of...
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bank's net interest margin, where this shock consists not only of a level shift, but also of a change in the steepness of … the term structure. Our simplified model can replicate stylized features of different bank business models.The outcome of … our parsimonious model for a bank's interest business is broadly in line with the results of a quantitative survey among …
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Life insurers typically grant policyholders a surrender option. We demonstrate that the resulting lapse risk could materialise in the form of a "policyholder run" if interest rates were to increase sharply. An inverse stress test based on a unique set of regulatory panel data suggests that...
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This paper analyses theperformance ofmaturity transformation strategiesduring a period of high and low interest rates. Based on German government bond yieldsfrom September 1972 to May 2019,we construct a rolling window of bond ladders where long-term assets are financed by short-term...
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This paper explores the extent to which interest risk exposure is priced in bank margins. Our contribution to the … for earnings from bank-individual maturity transformation strategies, we find all banks to charge additional fees for …
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An increase in the level of interest rates is said to have a negative impact on banks’ net interest margins in the short run. Using a time series of more than 40 years for the German banking system, we show that the opposite effect exists in the long run, where an increase in the level of...
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explained better by a bank's current balance sheet composition, the longer the forecast horizon. The opposite holds for banks …
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interest margin (NIM) and its components, retail lending and retail deposit rates. Using two proprietary bank-level data sets …
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Using data from a quantitative survey of German banks at three points in time (2015, 2017 and 2019), we analyze the impact of changes in the interest rate level on banks' net interest income and the countermeasures they take. A decline in the interest rate level has a more negative impact on net...
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