Changes in interest rates constitute a major source of risk for banks' business activity and can diversely affect their financial conditions and performance. We use a unique dataset to analyse Italian banks' exposure to interest rate risk during the crisis, relying on the standardized duration...

This paper combines qualitative information from the Eurosystem Bank Lending Survey with micro-data on loan prices and quantities for the participating Italian banks to assess the role of supply and demand factors in credit developments, with a focus on the sharp slowdown of 2008-09. Both demand...

The outbreak of the financial crisis coincided with a sharp increase of worldwide interbank interest rates. We analyze the micro and macroeconomic determinants of this phenomenon, finding that before August 2007 interbank rates were insensitive to borrower characteristics, whereas afterwards...