Why Do Bank-Dependent Firms Bear Interest-Rate Risk?

January 18, 2017

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Divya Kirti. Why Do Bank-Dependent Firms Bear Interest-Rate Risk?, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2017) accessed September 20, 2024

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Summary

I document that floating-rate loans from banks (particularly important for bank-dependent firms) drive most variation in firms' exposure to interest rates. I argue that banks lend to firms at floating rates because they themselves have floating-rate liabilities, supporting this with three key findings. Banks with more floating-rate liabilities, first, make more floating-rate loans, second, hold more floating-rate securities, and third, quote lower prices for floating-rate loans. My results establish an important link between intermediaries' funding structure and the types of contracts used by non-financial firms. They also highlight a role for banks in the balance-sheet channel of monetary policy.

Subject: Bank credit, Banking, Financial institutions, Financial regulation and supervision, Financial services, Hedging, Loans, Money, Securities, Short term interest rates

Keywords: Bank assets, Bank credit, Bank debt, Bank holding company, Bank lending, Bank lending to firm, Bank liabilities push bank, Bank liability, Bank-dependent firm, Bank-dependent firms, Capital structure, Commercial bank, Corporate finance, Deposit pass-through, Floating-rate loan, Hedging, Interest-rate risk, Lending to firm, Liabilities push bank, Loans, Securities, Securities holding, Short term interest rates, WP

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56
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Working Paper No. 2017/003
Stock No:

WPIEA2017003
ISBN:

9781475568974
ISSN:

1018-5941

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