Rising Interest Rate Risk at U.S. Banks

Interest rate derivatives at commercial banks: An empirical investigation ¬リニ

I analyze the effects of bank characteristics and macroeconomic shocks on interest rate riskmanagement behavior of commercial banks. My findings are consistent with hedging theories based on cost of financial distress and costly external financing. Banks with higher probability of financial distress manage their interest rate risk more aggressively, both by means of on-balance sheet and offbala...

Interest Rate Risk

Are Interest Rate Swaps Used to Manage Banks’ Earnings?

Previous research has shown that loan loss provisions and security gains and losses are used to manage banks’ net income. However, these income components are reported below banks largest operating component, net interest income (NII). This study extends the literature by examining whether banks exploit the accounting permitted under past and current hedge accounting standards to manage NII by ...

Value at Risk for Interest Rate-Dependent Securities

MARCH 2003 THE JOURNAL OF FIXED INCOME 81 V alue at risk modelers face difficult trade-offs in choosing between the two major VaR methodologies: historical/ Monte Carlo simulations or parametric models. The historical approach uses the recent history of the asset price (or, for derivatives, the price of the underlying), while the parametric approach imposes functional form assumptions upon the ...

Supervising Interest Rate Risk Management

made significant efforts to establish and improve their procedures for interest rate risk management, including using economic models of interest rates and related models of credit risk (Lopez 2001a, b).At the same time, bank supervisors worldwide, including the Federal Reserve, have been expanding their knowledge and oversight of interest rate risk management techniques. For example, U.S. bank...