Abstract:Research questionMaturity transformation is an important source of both profit and risk for banks. As a result of customers' wishes for long-term fixed interest rates for loans on the one hand and short-term availability of deposits on the other, in the typical bank balance sheet long-term assets are refinanced in the short term. With a normal yield curve, such a maturity transformation leads to positive profit contributions as interest rates for shorter maturities are lower than those for longer maturities. H… Show more
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