DP6635 Does Interbank Borrowing Reduce Bank Risk?

Author(s):	Valeriya Dinger, Jürgen von Hagen
Publication Date:	January 2008
Keyword(s):	bank risk, interbank market, market discipline, transition countries
JEL(s):	E53, G21
Programme Areas:	International Macroeconomics
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In this paper we investigate whether banks that borrow from other banks have lower risk levels. We concentrate on a large sample of Central and Eastern European banks which allows us to explore the impact of interbank lending when exposures are long-term and interbank borrowers are small banks. The results of the empirical analysis generally confirm the hypothesis that long-term interbank exposures result in lower risk of the borrowing banks.