The Exposure of Swiss Banks to Macroeconomic Shocks - an Empirical Investigation

Hansjörg Lehmann and Michael Manz

No 2006-04, Working Papers from Swiss National Bank

Abstract: Assessing financial stability is an issue of rapidly growing importance to central banks and banking authorities. This paper explores an extensive panel data set of Swiss banks to identify macroeconomic influencing factors on bank profitability and to quantify their impact on bank capitalization. We find evidence of a significant effect of various macroeconomic variables as e.g. real growth or interest rate shocks on bank earnings. However, our results suggest that the Swiss banking system is quite robust against macroeconomic shocks. Only a joint occurrence of a recession, rising interest rates and falling stock prices would lead to substantial losses in the Swiss banking industry.

Keywords: banking; macroeconomic shocks; stress tests; credit risk; interest rate risk; Switzerland (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C33 E44 G21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2006
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