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Prior research shows that banks have strong incentives to use loan loss provisions to smooth income. Using a sample of …, bank holding companies accelerate loan loss provisions to smooth income when (1) banks hit the regulatory minimum target … ratios are relatively more significant than regulatory‐set ratios to trigger income smoothing behaviour using loan loss …
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Banks' use of accounting discretion in estimating loan loss provisions (LLPs) during the financial crisis has come …
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We study the effects of mark-to-market accounting (MTM) on banks' loan origination and retention decisions. We point out a conceptual shortcoming of MTM. Loan prices are informative in equilibrium but this price discovery is sustained by the good banks' costly retention. The attempt to exploit...
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borrowers increase their asymmetric timely loss recognition in response to the tightening of lending standards. Further, riskier …
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discretion that is inherent to rules requiring forward-looking loss estimation. At the same time, banks also reduce their lending …
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After the 2008 global financial crisis, U.S. bank holding companies needing to cover larger-than-expected loan losses raised concerns that existing provision accounting may be procyclical. Most related studies have found evidence of procyclicality using either aggregate time-series data or...
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This paper examines the effect of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on loan loss provisions (LLP). Using a sample of 6 … tend to increase their loan loss provisioning. Considering the four components of EPU (the news-based, tax expirations … majority of the explanatory power on loan loss provisions originates from news-based and tax expiration indices. Moreover, US …
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