1. Chapter 8
Interest Rate Risk I

2. Overview
This chapter discusses the interest rate risk associated with financial intermediation:
Federal Reserve policy
Repricing model
Maturity model
Duration model
*Term structure of interest rate risk
*Theories of term structure of interest rates

3. Central Bank Policy and Interest Rate Risk
Japan: March 2001 announced it would no longer target the uncollateralized overnight call rate.
New target: Outstanding current account balances at BOJ
Targeting of bank reserves in U.S. proved disastrous

4. Central Bank and Interest Rate Risk
Effects of interest rate targeting.
Lessens interest rate risk
October 1979 to October 1982, nonborrowed reserves target regime.
Implications of return to reserves target policy:
Increases importance of measuring and managing interest rate risk.

5. Web Resources For information related to central bank policy, visit:
Bank for International Settlements:
Federal Reserve Bank:
Bank of Japan:
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6. Repricing Model Repricing or funding gap model based on book value.
Contrasts with market value-based maturity and duration models recommended by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).
Rate sensitivity means time to repricing.
Repricing gap is the difference between the rate sensitivity of each asset and the rate sensitivity of each liability: RSA - RSL.

7. Maturity Buckets
Commercial banks must report repricing gaps for assets and liabilities with maturities of:
One day.
More than one day to three months.
More than 3 three months to six months.
More than six months to twelve months.
More than one year to five years.
Over five years.

8. Repricing Gap Example Assets Liabilities Gap Cum. Gap
1-day $ 20 $ 30 $ $-10
>1day-3mos
>3mos.-6mos
>6mos.-12mos
>1yr.-5yrs
>5 years

9. Applying the Repricing Model
DNIIi = (GAPi) DRi = (RSAi - RSLi) Dri
Example:
In the one day bucket, gap is -$10 million. If rates rise by 1%,
DNIIi = (-$10 million) × .01 = -$100,000.

10. Applying the Repricing Model
Example II:
If we consider the cumulative 1-year gap,
DNIIi = (CGAPi) DRi = (-$15 million)(.01)
= -$150,000.

11. Rate-Sensitive Assets
Examples from hypothetical balance sheet:
Short-term consumer loans. If repriced at year-end, would just make one-year cutoff.
Three-month T-bills repriced on maturity every 3 months.
Six-month T-notes repriced on maturity every 6 months.
30-year floating-rate mortgages repriced (rate reset) every 9 months.

12. Rate-Sensitive Liabilities
RSLs bucketed in same manner as RSAs.
Demand deposits and passbook savings accounts warrant special mention.
Generally considered rate-insensitive (act as core deposits), but there are arguments for their inclusion as rate-sensitive liabilities.

13. CGAP Ratio May be useful to express CGAP in ratio form as,
CGAP/Assets.
Provides direction of exposure and
Scale of the exposure.
Example:
CGAP/A = $15 million / $270 million = 0.56, or 5.6 percent.

14. Equal Changes in Rates on RSAs and RSLs
Example: Suppose rates rise 2% for RSAs and RSLs. Expected annual change in NII,
NII = CGAP ×  R
= $15 million × .01
= $150,000
With positive CGAP, rates and NII move in the same direction.

15. Unequal Changes in Rates
If changes in rates on RSAs and RSLs are not equal, the spread changes. In this case,
NII = (RSA ×  RRSA ) - (RSL ×  RRSL )

16. Unequal Rate Change Example
Spread effect example:
RSA rate rises by 1.2% and RSL rate rises by 1.0%
NII =  interest revenue -  interest expense
= ($155 million × 1.2%) - ($155 million × 1.0%)
= $310,000

17. Restructuring Assets and Liabilities
The FI can restructure its assets and liabilities, on or off the balance sheet, to benefit from projected interest rate changes.
Positive gap: increase in rates increases NII
Negative gap: decrease in rates increases NII

18. Weaknesses of Repricing Model
Ignores market value effects and off-balance sheet cash flows
Overaggregative
Distribution of assets & liabilities within individual buckets is not considered. Mismatches within buckets can be substantial.
Ignores effects of runoffs
Bank continuously originates and retires consumer and mortgage loans. Runoffs may be rate-sensitive.

19. The Maturity Model Explicitly incorporates market value effects.
For fixed-income assets and liabilities:
Rise (fall) in interest rates leads to fall (rise) in market price.
The longer the maturity, the greater the effect of interest rate changes on market price.
Fall in value of longer-term securities increases at diminishing rate for given increase in interest rates.

20. Maturity of Portfolio
Maturity of portfolio of assets (liabilities) equals weighted average of maturities of individual components of the portfolio.
Principles stated on previous slide apply to portfolio as well as to individual assets or liabilities.
Typically, MA - ML > 0 for most banks and thrifts.

21. Effects of Interest Rate Changes
Size of the gap determines the size of interest rate change that would drive net worth to zero.
Immunization and effect of setting
MA - ML = 0.

22. Maturity Matching and Interest Rate Exposure
If MA - ML = 0, is the FI immunized?
Extreme example: Suppose liabilities consist of 1-year zero coupon bond with face value $100. Assets consist of 1-year loan, which pays back $99.99 shortly after origination, and 1¢ at the end of the year. Both have maturities of 1 year.
Not immunized, although maturities are equal.
Reason: Differences in duration.

23. Duration The average life of an asset or liability
The weighted-average time to maturity using present value of the cash flows, relative to the total present value of the asset or liability as weights.

24. *Term Structure of Interest Rates
YTM
YTM
Time to Maturity
Time to Maturity
Time to Maturity
Time to Maturity

25. *Unbiased Expectations Theory
Yield curve reflects market’s expectations of future short-term rates.
Long-term rates are geometric average of current and expected short-term rates.
_ _ ~ ~
RN = [(1+R1)(1+E(r2))…(1+E(rN))]1/N - 1

26. *Liquidity Premium Theory
Allows for future uncertainty.
Premium required to hold long-term.
*Market Segmentation Theory
Investors have specific needs in terms of maturity.
Yield curve reflects intersection of demand and supply of individual maturities.

27. Pertinent Websites Bank for International Settlements www.bis.org
Federal Reserve
Bank of Japan
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