This paper examines the effects of the Mexican debt mora torium in August 1982 on bank valuation. The Mexican default resulted in the passage of regulations requiring public disclosure of bank fo reign-lending exposure. The authors find that, even in the absence of public disclosure regulations,...

The primary purpose of this paper is to reconcile the previous findings of discount rate endogeneity with the presence of discount rate announcement effects in securities markets. The crux of this reconciliation is the dictinction between "technicral" discount rate changes that are endogenous...