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
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978-92-899-3281-3
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: ECB Working Paper ; No. 2176
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects
Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
- Subject
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interest rate risk
banking
risk management
hedging
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Hoffmann, Peter
Langfield, Sam
Pierobon, Federico
Vuillemey, Guillaume
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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European Central Bank (ECB)
- (where)
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Frankfurt a. M.
- (when)
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2018
- DOI
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doi:10.2866/561738
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Hoffmann, Peter
- Langfield, Sam
- Pierobon, Federico
- Vuillemey, Guillaume
- European Central Bank (ECB)
Time of origin
- 2018