Which interest rate scenario is the worst one for a bank? Evidence from a tracking bank approach for German savings and cooperative banks

Christoph Memmel

No 2008,07, Discussion Paper Series 2: Banking and Financial Studies from Deutsche Bundesbank

Abstract: Interest income is the most important source of revenue for most of the banks. The aim of this paper is to assess the impact of different interest rate scenarios on the banks' interest income. As we do not know the interest rate sensitivity of real banks, we construct for each bank a portfolio with a similar composition of its assets and liabilities, called 'tracking bank'. We evaluate the effect of 260 historical interest rate shocks on the tracking banks of German savings banks and cooperative banks. It turns out that a sharp decrease in the steepness of the yield curve has the most negative impact on the banks' interest income.

Keywords: Interest Rate Risk; Stress Testing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G12 G21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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