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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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The diminishing liquidity premium

Ben-Rephael, Azi; Kadan, Ohad; Wohl, Avi - Center for Financial Studies - 2008

that both the sensitivity of returns to liquidity and liquidity premia have significantly declined over the past four … strategies virtually unprofitable. Our results are robust to several conventional liquidity measures related to volume. When … using liquidity measure that is not related to volume, we find just weak evidence of a liquidity premium even in the early …

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Do firms buy their stock at bargain prices? Evidence from actual stock repurchase disclosure

Ben-Rephael, Azi; Oded, Jacob; Wohl, Avi - Center for Financial Studies - 2011

We use new data from SEC filings to investigate how S&P 500 firms execute their open market repurchase programs. We find that smaller S&P 500 firms repurchase less frequently than larger firms, and at a price which is significantly lower than the average market price. Their repurchase activity...

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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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