Arbeitspapier

Who bears interest rate risk?

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 half of the institutions in our sample. Cross-sectional variation in banks' exposures is driven by cross-country differences in loan-rate fixation conventions for mortgages. Banks use derivatives to partially hedge on-balance sheet exposures. Residual exposures imply that changes in interest rates have redistributive effects within the banking sector.

ISBN
978-92-899-3281-3
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: ECB Working Paper ; No. 2176

Classification
Wirtschaft
Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects
Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
Subject
interest rate risk
banking
risk management
hedging

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Hoffmann, Peter
Langfield, Sam
Pierobon, Federico
Vuillemey, Guillaume
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
European Central Bank (ECB)
(where)
Frankfurt a. M.
(when)
2018

DOI
doi:10.2866/561738
Handle
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Hoffmann, Peter
  • Langfield, Sam
  • Pierobon, Federico
  • Vuillemey, Guillaume
  • European Central Bank (ECB)

Time of origin

  • 2018

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