Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/144297 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
NBB Working Paper No. 83
Publisher: 
National Bank of Belgium, Brussels
Abstract: 
How should we value and manage deposit accounts where deposits have a zero contractual maturity, but which, in practice, remain stable through time and are remunerated below market rates? Does the economic value of the deposit account differ from the face value and can we reliably measure it? To what extent is the economic value sensitive to yield curve changes? In this paper, we try to answer the above questions. The valuation is performed on yield curve, deposit rate and deposit balance data between December 1994 and June 2005 for a sample of Belgian bank retail savings deposits accounts. We find that the deposits premium component of Belgian savings deposits is economically and statistically significant, though sensitive to assumptions about servicing costs and outstanding balances average decay rates. We also find that deposit liability values depreciate significantly when market rates increase, thereby offsetting some of the value losses on the asset side. The hedging characteristics of deposit accounts depend primarily on the nature of the underlying interest rate shock (yield curve level versus slope shock) and on the average decay rate. We assess the reliability of the reported point estimates and also report corresponding duration estimates that results from a dynamic replicating portfolio model approach more commonly used by large international banks.
Subjects: 
Demand deposits
ALM
risk management
arbitrage free pricing
flexible-affine term structure model
interest rate risk
IFRS 39
fair value accounting
JEL: 
G12
G21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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