Spring 2024

Economics of Banking


The lectures are scheduled over 15 weeks, with two hours each Monday 10-12 and two hours Thursday 13-15 in even-numbered weeks, all in 35-3-12. A plan for the teaching and an overview of the topics covered is given below (of course subject to minor changes as we proceed). First lecture is Monday, February 5th.

The course covers two distinct, but closely related, topics, namely microeconomics of banking, which deals with the role of banks in the economy and the economic aspects of the relations between a bank and its customers, and risk management in banks, a more technical part where we look at the tools used to control the risks in a bank.

We use the textbook:

Keiding, H., Economics of Banking, Palgrave Macmillan 2016

Since things move fast in the financial sector, there will occasionally be need for some supplements to the text. This will be indicated on the homepage.

We skip some sections (and a full chapter) as can be seen from the plan below.

For each lecture there will be a handout (click on the lecture number below) appearing a week's time before. It briefly describes what happens in this week, indicating what can be skipped in the text and what is important. There will be two voluntary assignments in the course of the semester, and it is recommended to do deliver these assignments.


  Plan of lectures


Lecture
(week number)
Handouts Microeconomics of banking Risk management in banks We read: Solutions to Exercises
in the textbook
Notes
1
(6)
Lecture 1
Slides
Why banks: The Diamond-Dybvig model of liquidity insurance
Chapter 1 (beginning)
Exercises in Chapter 1
Corrections to examples in Chapter 1
2
(6)
Lecture 2
Slides
Why banks, continued: Delegated monitoring, adverse selection, moral hazard

Rest of Chapter 1 (except sec.5)
Exercises in Chapter 2

3
(7)
Lecture 3
Slides
Relationship banking
Shadow banking I
Risk management, basics
Chapter 2, selected parts.
Chapter 3, beginning.
Exercises in Chapter 3

4
(8)
Lecture 4
Slides

Risk management, interest rate risk
Chapter 3, remaining parts


5
(8)
Lecture 5
Slides
The loan contract

Chapter 5
(First parts)
Exercises in Chapter 5

6
(9)
Lecture 6
Slides

The loan contract, cont.,
Credit rationing

Chapter 5
(remaining parts)
Chapter 6
(first parts)


7
(10)
Lecture 7
Slides
Credit rationing,
continued

Chapter 6
(remaining parts)
Chapter 4
Exercises in Chapter  6

8
(10)
Lecture 8
Slides
Securitization
Market risk
Chapter 8
Exercises in
Chapter 4

First voluntary assignment                Hints for answers
9
(11)
Lecture 9
Slides
Shadow banking II

Chapter 8,
remaining parts
Exercises in Chapter 8
Note on shadow banking
10
(12)
Lecture 10
Slides
Payments Credit risk Chapter 7,
Chapter 10,
sec.3
Exercises in Chapter 7
Note on payments
11
(12)
Lecture 11
Slides
Cryptocurrencies,
Islamic Banking,

Competition among banks
  Chapter 9, sec.6
Chapter 10,
sect 4
Chapter 11, sec.1-3
Exercises in Chapter10
Note on Blockchain
12
(13)
Lecture 12
Slides
Competition and risk taking

Chapter 11
(except sec.4.2,5.2,5.3)
Exercises in Chapter 11
13
(14)
Lecture 13
Slides
Irregularities in banking
Chapter 12
Exercises in Chapter 12

14
(15)
Lecture 14
Slides
Liquidity crises and bank runs
Interbank market
Operational risk

Liquidity risk
Chapter 13

Chapter 14
Exercises in Chapter 13
Exercises in Chapter 14

15
(16)
Lecture 15
Slides
Financial contagion
Shadow banking III,
Deposit insurance
  Chapter 14

Chapter 15


16
(16)
Lecture 16
Slides
Deposit insurance, continued


Chapter 15
Exercises in Chapter 15



Second voluntary assignment                Hints for answers
17
(17)
Lecture 17
Slides
Lenders of last resort

Chapter 16
Exercises in Chapter 16
Correction
18
(18)
Lecture 18
Slides
Regulation of banks

Chapter 17 Exercises in Chapter 17
19
(18)
Lecture 19
Slides
Systemic impact
Capital regulation I
  Chapter 18
Exercises in Chapter 18 Payments and contagion
20
(19)
Lecture 20
Slides
Capital regulation II




21
(20)
Notice: Only Thursday 13-15
Concluding remarks
Overview
Questions




Ordinary exam: 28.5.2024  Hints for solution
Reexam: 20.8.2024     Hints for solution

Previous exams



Latest update: 12.5.2024

Hans Keiding