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Variable Rate Loans
How Variable-Rate Lending Shapes Bank Profitability [Study]
Few questions matter more to a community bank than how its earnings respond when interest rates move. Yet little research has been published to answer this question or how variable-rate lending contribute to risk and profitability. A recent study in 2026 by James W. Kolari, Ivan Pastor Sanz, and Wei Liu (ssrn-6898599) tackles that gap…