This paper examines the effects of accounting-based thresholds in regulation on growth decisionsin the banking industry. To investigate this relation we study changes in growth around the $10billion asset threshold specified in the Dodd-Frank Act. We first document that in the yearsafter the new...

This paper examines whether public bank managers change both the composition and classification of their investment portfolios after SFAS 157. We first show that non-agency mortgage-backed securities (MBSNA) are the asset class most likely to be measured using level 3 inputs, which are based on...