In this paper we show that inflation differentials among the countries in the European Monetary Union (EMU) are an economically significant risk to German firms, which make up the largest economy in the EMU. This risk can be interpreted as real “exchange rate exposure” resulting from trade...

This paper explores the extent to which interest risk exposure is priced in bank margins. Our contribution to the literature is twofold: First, we present an extended model of Ho and Saunders (1981) that explicitly captures interest rate risk and returns from maturity transformation. Banks price...

This paper describes the first thorough analysis of the interest risk of German banks on an individual bank level. We develop a new method that is based on time series of accountingbased data to quantify the interest risk of banks and apply it to analyze the German banking system. We find...

Diese Arbeit untersucht, wie Privatinvestoren vorzeitige Kündigungsrechte in strukturierten Zinsprodukten nutzen. Als Grundlage für die Analyse dient hierbei ein neuartiger, nicht öffentlich verfügbarer Datensatz, der über einen Zeitraum von circa 13 Jahren Entscheidungen von mehr als...