Banks' Exposure to Interest Rate Risk and the Transmission of Monetary Policy

72 Pages Posted: 19 Feb 2013 Last revised: 24 Mar 2020

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Matthieu Gomez

Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics

Augustin Landier

HEC

David Alexandre Sraer

University of California, Berkeley; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

David Thesmar

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Date Written: July 9, 2019

Abstract

The cash-flow exposure of banks to interest rate risk, or income gap, is a significant determinant of the transmission of monetary policy to bank lending and real activity. When the Fed Funds rate rises, banks with a larger income gap generate stronger earnings and contract their lending by less than other banks. This finding is robust to controlling for factors known to affect the transmission of monetary policy to bank lending. It also holds on loan-level data, even when we control for firm-specific credit demand. When monetary policy tightens, firms borrowing from banks with a larger income gap reduce their investment by less than other firms.

Keywords: Interest rate risk, monetary policy, bank lending

JEL Classification: E52, G21, E44

Suggested Citation

Gomez, Matthieu and Landier, Augustin and Sraer, David Alexandre and Thesmar, David, Banks' Exposure to Interest Rate Risk and the Transmission of Monetary Policy (July 9, 2019). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2220360 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2220360

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