What does the Federal Reserve’s economic value model tell us about interest rate risk at U.S. community banks?

Gregory E. Sierra and Timothy J. Yeager

No 2003-01, Supervisory Policy Analysis Working Papers from Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Abstract: The savings and loan crisis of the 1980s revealed the vulnerability of some depository institutions to changes in interest rates. Since that episode, U.S. bank supervisors have placed more emphasis on monitoring the interest rate risk of commercial banks. One outcome developed by economists at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors was a duration-based Economic Value Model (EVM) designed to estimate the interest rate sensitivity of banks. ; We test whether measures derived from the Fed?s EVM are correlated with the interest rate sensitivity of U.S. community banks. The answer to this question is important because bank supervisors rely on EVM measures for monitoring and scoping bank-level interest rate sensitivity. ; We find that the Federal Reserve?s EVM is indeed correlated with banks? interest rate sensitivity and conclude that supervisors can rely on this tool to help assess a bank?s interest rate risk. Our results are consistent with prior research that finds the average interest rate risk at banks to be modest, though we do not consider the potential interaction between interest rate risk and other risk factors.

Keywords: Community banks; Risk management; Interest rates (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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