analyzes the implications of the change from IAS 39 to IFRS 9 in the context of bank resilience. We shed light on two effects … bank resilience through lower capital levels. In the absence of archival data of IFRS 9 and their potential biases due to …IFRS 9 substantially affects the financial sector by changing the impairment methodology for credit losses. This paper …

IAS 39, IFRS 9 and US GAAP. We model the impact of credit impairments on the Profit and Loss (P&L) account under all three … regimes. Our results suggest that although IFRS 9 is less procyclical than the previous regulation (IAS 39), it is more …

-merger financial performance. We find that, on average, bank mergers in the European Union resulted in improved return on capital. By …

assess the relative importance of cross-border bank spillovers as compared to domestic bank spillovers. The results suggest …

expected return news component - as opposed to the bank-specific news, typically assumed to be incorporated in the cash …

approach is able to measure competition of bank market segments, such as the loan market, whereas many well-known measures of … ignores differences in bank product quality and design, as well as the attractiveness of innovations. We measure competition …

merger targets become more profitable and larger. A major determinant of the positive bank returns, after controlling inter …-oriented regime for merger control increases banks’ stock prices, whereas it decreases those of non-financial firms. Moreover, bank … alia for the general quality of institutions and individual bank characteristics, is the opaqueness that characterizes the …