1. Assessing Supervisory Scenarios for Interest Rate Risk.
- Author
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CHRISTENSEN, JENS H. E. and LOPEZ, JOSE A.
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INTEREST rate swaps , *INTEREST rates , *CAPITAL assets pricing model , *YIELD curve (Finance) , *FINANCIAL management , *INTEREST rate risk management , *ECONOMICS , *RATE of return - Abstract
A new proposal by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision for setting the amount of capital banks must hold against potential losses from interest rate risk uses only a few, very stylized scenarios. Analysis shows the proposed scenarios are extremely unlikely to occur. While they may be appropriate for setting bank capital guidelines, they are much less relevant for everyday risk management. Instead, using a modeling framework with a plausible range of interest rate scenarios would be more relevant to help banks manage their interest rate risk. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2015