Arbeitspapier

What drives the short-term fluctuations of banks' exposure to interest rate risk?

We investigate whether banks actively manage their exposure to interest rate risk in the short run. Using bank-level data of German banks for the period 2011Q4- 2017Q2, we find evidence that banks actively manage their interest rate risk exposure in their banking books: They take account of their regulatory situation and adjust their exposure to the earning opportunities of this risk. We also find that the customers' preferences predominantly determine the fixed-interest period of housing loans and that the fixed-interest period of these loans has an impact on the banks' overall exposure to interest rate risk. This last finding is not in line with active interest rate risk management.

ISBN
978-3-95729-553-8
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Deutsche Bundesbank Discussion Paper ; No. 05/2019

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
Thema
interest rate risk in the banking book
fixed-interest period of housing loans
interest swaps
regulation of interest rate risk

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Memmel, Christoph
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Deutsche Bundesbank
(wo)
Frankfurt a. M.
(wann)
2019

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Memmel, Christoph
  • Deutsche Bundesbank

Entstanden

  • 2019

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