The treatment of demand loans and deposits is crucial in measuring a bank's actual exposure to the interest rate risk in the banking book. The repricing gap model, the most popular approach to measure this kind of risk, is based on a maturity/repricing schedule, according to which...

This paper studies banks' competitive behavior on the deposit side of the Italian retail banking industry. We use a structural model to estimate demand for deposit services and test several supply models. We find that both the competitive, differentiated product Bertrand and the perfectly...