Fleckenstein, Matthias; Longstaff, Francis A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We use the term structure of bank CD rates to examine whether maturity-transformation risk is priced into the rates … banks offer customers. We find that depositors pay a significant cost for the liquidity provided by bank deposits. This cost … is strongly related to the amount of maturity-transformation risk that these deposit accounts create. The cost is also …