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... bank’s interest rate risk management and interest rate risk exposure, and in developing a (supervisory) response to that risk. At the core of these principles is the involvement of the board ... additional risks further down the line. The key elements of interest rate risk for banks include repricing risk, yield curve risk, basis risk and optionality.4 Repricing risks arise from timing ... supervisory authorities. Banks must also hold capital commensurate with the level of interest rate risk they undertake, and should release information on the level of interest rate risk and...

... on the put options position held by the bank. The financial institution hedged the interest rate risk exposure perfectly because the basis risk is assumed to be zero. That is, the change in interest ... in-terest rate derivative when the interest rates rise. If the hedge is perfect, then the losses in the cash market will be offset exactly by the positive cash flows in the derivatives markets. If the ... savings bank is subject to basis risk exposure on the swap contract. There are two possible sources of this basis risk. First, CD rates do not exactly match the movements of the LIBOR rates over...

... of results is provided in Table 5 in the appendix.11financial crisis. During the crisis period, the impact of interest rate projections onfutures rates is economically small and statistically ... quarters ahead is destabilizing even before the outbreak of the crisis.For the crisis period, Table 3 confirms the vanishing role of interest rate projectionsfor market expectations. The only exception ... longer-term interest rates are, therefore, also allowed to depend on expectedchanges in projected interest rates. The focus of this section is, however, on how the unexpected part of the interest rate...

... only the (errors in the) inflation forecasts in New Zealand and the United Kingdom but also the rela-tionships between the errors in the inflation forecasts and those in the interest rate forecasts, ... —Note: The corresp onding p-value is evaluated against the null hypothesis, H0:C1=0,C2=0. The hypothesis is that the up-period indicator (C1) is positive(actual > forecast) and the ... conclusion of this set of tests is that the precision of inter-est forecasts beyond the next quarter or two is approximately zero,whether they are made by the RBNZ or the UK market. Given the gradual...

... bills, it is the government that faces comparable refunding risks. A key issue, then, is whether the banks or the government is best placed to bear such risks. The second choice is between ... the long-term rate of interest as the private sector increases savings to meet future tax liabilities. Another dimension is the nature of the policy response. One characterisation of this is ... versions of the quantity theory [of money].” He repeated this analysis in The General Theory: The monetary authority often tends in practice to concentrate upon short-term debts and to leave the...

... No. 3 the nominal interest rate implied by the Taylor rule, and the behaviour of the nominal interest rate over history.If we plug in values for the nominal interest rate, inflation, the inflation ... real interest rates.Figure 4 illustrates the sensitivity of our estimates of the real interest rate to the measure of inflation that is used to convertnominal interest rates into real interest rates. ... account, the nominal interest rate tells the investor how much money the bank will pay themas a return on their savings. The nominal interest rate doesnot tell the investor how much the return on their...

... by the Interest Rate Gap To evaluate the appropriateness of the current monetary stance, we calculate the interest rate gap—defined as the difference between the actual policy rate and the ... rate,  the neutral nominal interest rate,  stands for the rate of inflation,  is the inflation target of the central bank,  is the output gap (measured as the percentage ... Moreover, there is a strong endogeneity between the level of the policy rate the SELIC—and the level of public debt, given that about half of the domestic public debt is indexed to the SELIC. This...

... S(3)S(12) S(60)RˆRWhich interest rate scenario is the worstone for a bank?Evidence from a tracking bank approach forGerman savings and cooperative banksChristoph MemmelDiscussion PaperSeries ... Relations Division, at the above address or via fax +49 69 9566-3077Internet http://www.bundesbank.de Reproduction permitted only if source is stated. ISBN 978-3–86558–404–5 (Printversion) ISBN 978-3–86558–405–2 ... 2: Banking and Financial StudiesNo 07/2008Discussion Papers represent the authors’ personal opinions and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Deutsche Bundesbank or its staff.Rt,i=...

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