Interest Rate Risk Management and Dynamic Portfolio Selections

Policy interest rate, loan portfolio management and bank liquidity

This paper analyzes how the movements of the policy interest rate affect bank-relevant variables through changes in the composition of the loan portfolio. Using a computational approach that fully accounts for borrowers’ heterogeneity, we show how the variety of bank customers changes and how this change affects the bank’s cash influx, making it more volatile. The paper also sheds light on how ...

Supervising Interest Rate Risk Management

made significant efforts to establish and improve their procedures for interest rate risk management, including using economic models of interest rates and related models of credit risk (Lopez 2001a, b).At the same time, bank supervisors worldwide, including the Federal Reserve, have been expanding their knowledge and oversight of interest rate risk management techniques. For example, U.S. bank...

Dynamic Interest Rate and Credit Risk Models

Integrating Interest Rate and Currency Risk Management

Building on recent arbitrage-based pricing innovations in finance, we demonstrate an integrated interest rate and currency risk evaluation and management approach. This approach is based on the six fundamental parameters of global money market risk, exchange rate standard deviation, interest rate standard deviations and the correlations across interest rates and currencies. Based on these param...

Worst-Case Portfolio Optimization under Stochastic Interest Rate Risk

We investigate a portfolio optimization problem under the threat of a market crash, where the interest rate of the bond is modeled as a Vasicek process, which is correlated with the stock price process. We adopt a non-probabilistic worst-case approach for the height and time of the market crash. On a given time horizon [0, T ], we then maximize the investor’s expected utility of terminal wealth...