Competition and Bank Opacity

Did regulatory reforms that lowered barriers to competition among U.S. banks increase or decrease the quality of information that banks disclose to the public and regulators? We find that an intensification of competition reduced abnormal accruals of loan loss provisions and the frequency with which banks restate financial statements. The results indicate that competition reduces bank opacity, enhancing the ability of markets and regulators to monitor banks

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Year of publication:	2014
Authors:	Jiang, Liangliang
Other Persons:	Levine, Ross (contributor) ; Lin, Chen (contributor)
Publisher:	[2014]: [S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Wettbewerb \| Competition \| Bank \| Bankenregulierung \| Bank regulation

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (54 p)
Series:	NBER Working Paper ; No. w20760
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments December 2014 erstellt
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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