The Review of Corporate Finance Studies Vol. 9 No. 2 2020

Banks’ Noninterest Income and Systemic Risk

Markus K. Brunnermeier¹; Gang Nathan Dong²; Darius Palia³

¹ Princeton University, NBER, CEPR, and CESifo · ² Boston College · ³ Rutgers Business School

Abstract

This paper finds noninterest income is positively correlated with the total systemic risk for U.S. banks. Decomposing total systemic risk into three components, we find that noninterest income is positively related to a bank’s tail risk, positively related to a bank’s interconnectedness risk, and an insignificantly related to a bank’s exposure to macroeconomic and finance factors. We also find that noninterest income is more volatile and negatively related to interest income. Finally, we find trading and other noninterest income to be positively correlated with systemic risk. Other noninterest income, compared with trading income, has a slightly larger economic impact. (JEL G01, G18, G20, G21, G32, G38) Received October 31, 2019; editorial decision February 3, 2020 by Editor Andrew Ellul.

DOI

10.1093/rcfs/cfaa006

Volume

9

Issue

2

Pages

229-255

Language

en

Sources

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