Bonaldi, Pietro; Liang, Pierre Jinghong; Yang, Lavender - 2023
The Current Expected Credit Loss (CECL) standard took effect in 2020 during the onset of the unprecedented global …’ loan loss provisions and on earnings quality. We empirically document that starting in the second half of 2020, banks … adopting CECL report larger reserve releases and are more likely to report negative loan loss provisions than non …