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Are Banks Exposed to Interest Rate Risk?

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  • Pascal Paul
  • Simon Zhu

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While banks seem to face inherent risk from short-term interest rate changes, in practice they structure their balance sheets to avoid exposure to such risk. Nonetheless, recent research finds that banks cannot offload all of the interest rate risk they are naturally exposed to. Historically, banks’ profit margins reflect their compensation for taking on interest rate risk and their stock prices are highly sensitive to changes in interest rates. These findings can help practitioners assess banks’ risk exposures and may have implications for unconventional monetary policy.

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  • Pascal Paul & Simon Zhu, 2020. "Are Banks Exposed to Interest Rate Risk?," FRBSF Economic Letter, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, vol. 2020(16), pages 1-05, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:fip:fedfel:88208
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    1. Michelangeli, Valentina & Piersanti, Fabio Massimo, 2023. "Interdependence between assets and liabilities in the banking system: Changes in the last two decades," Finance Research Letters, Elsevier, vol. 58(PA).

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