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.S. bank securities, hedging positions, and corporate credit. Banks that experienced larger losses on their securities during …
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filings shows that only 6% of U.S. banking assets used derivatives to hedge their interest rate risk, and even heavy users of …, focusing on short-term gains but risking further losses if rates rose. Instead of hedging the market value risk of bank asset … implications for regulatory capital accounting and risk management practices in the banking sector …
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of the banking system reveals that most swap exposures are offsetting. Therefore, as a description of prevailing practice …, we conclude that swap positions are not economically significant in hedging the interest rate risk of bank assets …
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Do periods of persistently loose monetary policy increase financial fragility and the likelihood of a financial crisis? This is a central question for policymakers, yet the literature does not provide systematic empirical evidence about this link at the aggregate level. In this paper we fill...
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We examine the transmission of monetary policy shocks to the long-duration liabilities of households and firms using high-frequency variation in 10-year swap rates around FOMC announcements. We find that four weeks after the announcement mortgage rates move one-for-one with 10-year swap rates,...
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prices of banks with low branch density plummeted during the 2023 Banking Crisis as these banks experienced larger outflows … of uninsured deposits. Our results suggest that digital banking enabled banks to grow faster and attract uninsured …
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We examine how financial crises redistribute risk, employing novel empirical methods and micro data from the largest financial crisis of the 20th century - the Great Depression. Using balance-sheet and systemic risk measures at the bank level, we build an econometric model with incidental...
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pricing is mainly driven by pricing power derived from the large observed degree of concentration in the banking industry …
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competing banking offices. The bank's presence caused smaller city property value contractions and stronger recoveries through …
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Motivated by the regional bank crisis of 2023, we model the impact of interest rates on the liquidity risk of banks. Prior work shows that banks hedge the interest rate risk of their assets with their deposit franchise: when interest rates rise, the value of the assets falls but the value of the...
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