... (2008)for Germany investigate the determinants of the banks’ exposure to interest rate risk. Theyfind that the belonging to certain banking groups, the banks’ size, their earnings andbalance ... positions in their banking book. Our dataset concerning the Basel interest rate coefficient consists of two sources: the notifications in the event that the losses exceed 20% of the own funds, and the informationgathered ... sourceof interest income, and timely changes in earnings from term transformation stronglyaffect their interest income. However, in the cross-section, the interest margin is not muchdetermined by the...