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, focusing on short-term gains but risking further losses if rates rose. Instead of hedging the market value risk of bank asset … fluctuations. More vulnerable banks were more likely to reclassify. Extending Jiang et al.'s (2023) solvency bank run model, we …
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role in determining a bank's IRS trading activity. …
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capital and liquidity ratios, the leverage ratio plays a key role in determining a bank's IRS trading activity. 5) Also, after … mandatory central clearing, there is still a large dispersion in IRS transaction prices, which is partly determined by bank …
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We study the allocation of interest rate risk within the European banking sector using novel data. Banks' exposure to interest rate risk is small on aggregate, but heterogeneous in the cross-section. In contrast to conventional wisdom, net worth is increasing in interest rates for approximately...
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, we conclude that swap positions are not economically significant in hedging the interest rate risk of bank assets … average bank has a large notional amount of swaps-- $434 billion, or more than 10 times assets. But after accounting for the … significant extent to which swap positions offset each other, the average bank has essentially no net interest rate risk from …
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We examine the optimal size and composition of banks' total loss absorbing capacity (TLAC). Optimal size is driven by the trade-off between providing liquidity services through deposits and minimizing deadweight default costs. Optimal composition (equity vs. bail-in debt) is driven by the...
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This paper develops a model of banking to study the risk-taking consequences of contingent capital (CC). It begins with the observation that partial conversion of CC provides its owners with a portfolio of equity and debt. Since the former (latter) asset typically induces a preference for risk...
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We investigate the relationship between bank complexity and bank risk-taking using German banking data over the period …
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Bank capital requirements are based on a mix of market values and book values. We investigate the effects of a policy … banking organizations. Our analysis is based on security-level data on individual bank portfolios matched to bond …
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the public, long-term systemic risk among banks tends to increase. From the dynamic perspective, bank penalties represent … long-term. In this respect, bank penalties resemble still waters that run deep. In contrast, a settlement with regulatory …
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