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 …

individual bank level. We find that the choice of the term structure and the pass-through model is of limited importance for the …

bank-level data for German banks, we find evidence that a bank's exposure to interest rate risk depends on its presumed … optimization horizon. The longer the presumed optimization horizon is, the more the bank is exposed to interest rate risk in its … exposure to interest rate risk. The more a bank is exposed to the risk of a decline in the interest rate level, the higher its …

risk factors, we separate the bank-specific selection and monitoring abilities from the composition of the loan portfolio …, on average, lower loan losses, (b) the loss rate of a given industry in a bank's loan portfolio is lower if the bank has …