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 …

corresponding risk-taking, the ensuing effect on their profitability and the respective publication effect. Exploiting the …

corresponding risk-taking, the ensuing effect on their profitability and the respective publication effect. Exploiting the …

878 US bank holding companies over the period 2001–2009, I find strong evidence of income smoothing behavior. Additionally …, bank holding companies accelerate loan loss provisions to smooth income when (1) banks hit the regulatory minimum target …, (2) are in non-recessionary periods, and (3) are more profitable. I also find that bank internally set regulatory capital …

Bank regulators and academics have long conjectured the beneficial effects of smoothing in loan loss provisions (i ….e., making higher provisions during good times so as to avoid doing so during bad times) for bank lending and stability, while … emerging market crisis to capture an adverse supply shock to bank capital, we show, consistent with the bright-side, that …