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Banks' option to lend, interest rate sensitivity, and credit availability

Interest rate risk is a major concern for banks because of the nominal nature of their assets and the asset-liability maturity mismatch.This paper proposes a new way to derive a bank's interest rate sensitivity, by examining separately the effects of interest rate changes on existing loans (loans-in-place) and potential loans (loans-in-process).A potential loan is shown to be equivalent to an American option to lend, and is valued using option theory.An increase in interest rates usually has a negative effect on existing loans.However, if both deposit and lending rates rise by the same amount, the value of a potential loan generally increases. Hence a bank's lending slack (ratio of loans-in-process to loans-in-place) will determine its overall interest rate risk. Empirical evidence indicates that low-slack banks indeed have significantly more interest rate risk than high-slack banks.The model also makes predictions regarding the effect of deposit and lending rate parameters on bank credit availability.Empirical tests with quarterly data are generally supportive of these predictions.

ISBN
951-686-791-X
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Bank of Finland Discussion Papers ; No. 15/2002

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
interest rate risk
option to lend
bank's lending capacity
maturity intermediation

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Hasan, Iftekhar
Sudipto, Sarkar
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Bank of Finland
(wo)
Helsinki
(wann)
2002

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Hasan, Iftekhar
  • Sudipto, Sarkar
  • Bank of Finland

Entstanden

  • 2002

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