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How Excessive Is Banks’ Maturity Transformation?

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  • Anatoli Segura
  • Javier Suarez

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We quantify the gains from regulating maturity transformation in a model of banks that finance long-term assets with nontradable debt. Banks choose the amount and maturity of their debt by trading off investors’ preferences for short maturities with the risk of systemic crises. Pecuniary externalities make unregulated debt maturities inefficiently short. In calibrating the model to eurozone banking data for 2006, we find that lengthening the average maturity of wholesale debt from 2.8 to 3.3 months would produce welfare gains with a present value of euro 105 billion, while the lengthening induced by the NSFR would be too drastic. Received November 27, 2014; editorial decision November 14, 2016 by Editor Itay Goldstein.

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  • Anatoli Segura & Javier Suarez, 2017. "How Excessive Is Banks’ Maturity Transformation?," The Review of Financial Studies, Society for Financial Studies, vol. 30(10), pages 3538-3580.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:rfinst:v:30:y:2017:i:10:p:3538-3580.
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    JEL classification:

    • G01 - Financial Economics - - General - - - Financial Crises
    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
    • G28 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Government Policy and Regulation

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