Real Interest Rates, Bank Borrowing, and Fragility

Toni Ahnert, Kartik Anand and Philipp Johann König

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2024, vol. 56, issue 6, 1545-1571

Abstract: How do real interest rates affect financial fragility? We study this issue in a model where bank borrowing is subject to rollover risk. A bank's optimal borrowing trades off the benefit from investing additional funds into profitable assets with the cost of greater risk of a run by creditors. Changes in the interest rate affect the price and amount of borrowing, which influence bank fragility in opposite directions. Thus, the marginal impact of changes to the interest rate on bank fragility depends on the level of the interest rate. Finally, we derive testable implications that may guide future empirical work.

Date: 2024
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Working Paper: Real Interest Rates, Bank Borrowing, and Fragility (2023)
Working Paper: Real interest rates, bank borrowing, and fragility (2022)
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