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Fair value accounting has been argued as one contributing factor to the recent global financial crisis occurred from 2007 to 2008. However, recent empirical studies find no significant evidence for this role of fair value accounting. One reason for this inconsistency comes from the weaknesses of...
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reporting discretion and enforcement deserve careful consideration. In addition, bank regulation through its interlinkage with …
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bid-ask spreads in the long run. -- Bank Regulation ; Fair Value Accounting ; Financial Crisis ; IAS 39 ; IFRS 7 … abandoning fair value recognition for selected financial assets. Using a comprehensive global sample of publicly listed IFRS … reclassifying banks do not fully comply with the accompanying IFRS 7 requirements. These banks experience a significant increase in …
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Amendment of IAS 39 by the IASB in 2008 provided an option to reclassify investments from fair value to historical cost. Whereas this option was available to all firms, it was particularly relevant to banks. We predict that “too important to fail” (TITF) banks took less advantage of this...
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This paper examines how fair value accounting can create financial contagion among banks and therefore increase bank …, a healthy bank obtains additional regulatory capital to absorb a failing bank, which would otherwise be liquidated in a … less efficient secondary market, thereby saving regulators' costs. On the other hand, the otherwise healthy bank becomes …
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liquidity shock at the beginning of the Financial Crisis of 2007-08 into a solvency crisis and ultimately systemic bank failures … increase transparency - and bank solvency regulation, whose aim is to ensure financial stability. It focuses on fair value …
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There is a long-standing debate on the recognition of intangible assets and whether they can be measured reliably. Most recognized intangibles are acquired in business combinations, and estimating their fair values is highly subjective. Using a broad sample of business combinations in the U.S....
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In their implementation of Basel III, U.S. bank regulators are again including changes in the fair value of available … expanding this regulation by examining bank investment decisions in the 1990's when changes in the fair value of AFS debt …
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variables were selected on a holistic basis and relate to a bank's earnings situation (profit and loss statement view), risk … asymmetries between the bank and investors.Our results support the overall hypothesis that own credit disclosure is a function of … adjustment on the bank's return on equity ratio (RoE) and the overall amount of financial liabilities designated at fair value …
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There is a popular belief that the confluence of bank capital rules and fair value accounting helped trigger the recent … investments which further depressed prices. This ultimately led to bank instability and the credit effects that reached a peak … may have been other more significant factors putting stress on bank regulatory capital …
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