What Happened to Profitability? Shocks, Challenges and Perspectives for Euro Area Banks

Gong Cheng and Dirk Mevis
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Dirk Mevis: ESM

Working Papers from European Stability Mechanism

Abstract: Transaction cost shocks in financial markets are known to affect asset prices. This paper analyses how changes in transaction costs may affect the value of assets that banks use to collateralise borrowings in monetary policy operations. Based on a simple asset pricing model and employing a dataset of hypothetical Eurosystem collateral positions, we simulate and quantify the resulting change in collateral value pledged by counterparties to the Eurosystem, resulting from a transaction cost shock. A 10 basis point increase in transaction costs entails a direct -0.30% decrease of collateral value and a -0.07% decrease when adjusted for the expected reduction in the number of trades of each asset. We conclude that banks will on average suffer small collateral losses while selected institutions could face a considerably larger collateral decrease.

Keywords: Bank; profit; return on asset; bank regulation; bank business model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G21 G28 G33 L25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34
Date: 2015-11-02, Revised 2021-10-26
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Journal Article: What happened to profitability? Shocks, challenges and perspectives for euro area banks (2019)
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