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The Choice of Interest Rate Models and Its Effect on Bank Capital Requirements Regulation and Financial Stability
According to the Basel regulation banks may use internal risk models to measure interest rate risk and calculate
regulatory capital requirements. Under its pillar II the Basel framework grants leeway to banks in their choice of
these models. We therefore focus on how well interest rate models describe real interest rate movements
empirically and which impact the model choice has on the economic value of bank equity during the financial
crisis. Furthermore, we address the question how different choices of interest rate models affect the overall
financial stability. To this end we estimate eight different interest rate models for three different currencies (USD,
EUR, CHF) using the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM). Then we approximate the balance sheet of a
typical Swiss bank during the financial crisis and run Monte Carlo simulations of the balance sheet using the
estimated interest rate models. Our results show that the required economic value of equity for a bank varies
considerably with the different choices of interest rate models. However, the interest rate models which are
empirically best fitting do not imply aggregate financial stability. Thus, banks? choices of interest rate models to
calculate regulatory capital requirements may have a crucial impact on overall financial stability.
Autor
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Klaus Spremann
Sebastian Lang, Reto Signer
 
ArtikelFachbereichFachrichtung
2018VolkswirtschaftslehreVolkswirtschaftstheorie
 
Schlagwörter
Zins, Kapitalunterlegung