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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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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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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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We investigate how investors price the fair value estimates of assets as required by Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 157 (SFAS 157) since the financial crisis in 2008. We observe that Level 3 fair value estimates are typically priced lower than Level 1 and Level 2 fair value...
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Prudential regulation of financial institutions relies on asset values measured based on accounting standards. This paper examines how this regulation affects financial institutions' incentives to use Level 2 versus Level 3 fair value reporting and how their endogenous choice affects systemic...
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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 …
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alleged by the critics; they point out that most bank assets are not fair valued, and the assets that are fair valued likely …
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This paper examines whether and how the level of exposure to fair value accounting moderates the changes in the value relevance of equity book value and net income during a crisis period. Using a sample of European listed financial firms over 2005-2011, our analysis confirms prior literature...
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