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...

This paper contributes to prior literature and to the current debate concerning the prudential supervisory framework to measure interest rate risk in the banking book (IRRBB), which has been significantly changed on April 2016, when the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) published the...