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Did fair-value accounting contribute to the financial crisis?

Laux, Christian; Leuz, Christian - Center for Financial Studies - 2009

The recent financial crisis has led to a major debate about fair-value accounting. Many critics have argued that fair-value accounting, often also called mark-to-market accounting, has significantly contributed to the financial crisis or, at least, exacerbated its severity. In this paper, we...

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Price pressures

Hendershott, Terrence; Menkveld, Albert J. - Center for Financial Studies - 2010

supplying liquidity to asynchronously arriving investors. Empirically, twelve years of daily New York Stock Exchange …

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Does algorithmic trading improve liquidity?

Hendershott, Terrence; Jones, Charles M.; Menkveld, … - Center for Financial Studies - 2008

Algorithmic trading has sharply increased over the past decade. Equity market liquidity has improved as well. Are the … the associations between liquidity and message traffic. Based on within-stock variation, we find that algorithmic trading … and liquidity are positively related. To sort out causality, we use the start of autoquoting on the NYSE as an exogenous …

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The crisis of fair value accounting: Making sense of the recent debate

Laux, Christian; Leuz, Christian - Center for Financial Studies - 2009

The recent financial crisis has led to a vigorous debate about the pros and cons of fair-value accounting (FVA). This debate presents a major challenge for FVA going forward and standard setters' push to extend FVA into other areas. In this article, we highlight four important issues as an...

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