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I use an option-based valuation to examine the relations among swap participant’s credit conditions, capital regulation, deposit insurance, and optimal loan-rate setting. A loan-rate-setting bank conducts a loan portfolio swap to manage the credit risk in its lending business. The comparative static results demonstrate that the bank’s optimal loan-rate setting is negatively related to its credit improvement, to its counterparty’s credit deterioration, to the capital-to-deposits ratio, and to the deposit insurance premium under strategic substitutes when the bank has a greater market power. My findings provide alternative explanations for loan portfolio swap transaction concerning bank loan-rate-setting behavior.
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