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Fixed Versus Variable Rate Loans
Author(s) -
SANTOMERO ANTHONY M.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
the journal of finance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 18.151
H-Index - 299
eISSN - 1540-6261
pISSN - 0022-1082
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1983.tb03829.x
Subject(s) - loan , fixed interest rate loan , economics , variable (mathematics) , interest rate , portfolio , econometrics , zero (linguistics) , set (abstract data type) , rate of return , stochastic game , point (geometry) , actuarial science , microeconomics , mathematics , financial economics , monetary economics , finance , computer science , mathematical analysis , linguistics , philosophy , geometry , programming language
This paper discusses the nature of fixed and variable loan contracts and derives the conditions which determine the optimal quantity of each. The results indicate that the payoff functions are quite different and dependent upon the project financed. The appropriate conditions for the allocation of loan terms to a set of borrowers are then developed. Finally, the analysis derives the optimal portfolio frontier and risk‐return trade‐off for the banking firm. Here, it is demonstrated that the solution is unlikely to be at a point of zero interest rate risk.