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When the Fed Raises Rates, Are Banks Less Profitable?

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Banks limit their interest rate risk exposure by issuing adjustable-rate loans and protect their funding costs by slowly adjusting deposit rates. These actions allow banks to maintain largely stable profit margins even if monetary policy tightens unexpectedly. Evidence from the pre-pandemic tightening cycle suggests that bank profit margins could increase rather than decline over the coming months. However, the slow adjustment of rates that banks pay on deposits may result in people moving their savings, leading to a reallocation of assets away from the regulated banking system.

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  • Pascal Paul, 2022. "When the Fed Raises Rates, Are Banks Less Profitable?," FRBSF Economic Letter, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, vol. 2022(35), pages 1-06, December.
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