Download or read book Three Empirical Essays on Bank Accounting written by Chu Yeong Lim and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis presents new empirical evidence on three important aspects of financial reporting by banks. The thesis consists of an introductory chapter that explains how the three issues are related to each other, three empirical chapters and a final summary chapter. The first empirical chapter studies the effects of accounting conservatism on the pricing of syndicated bank loans. I provide evidence that banks more timely in loss recognition charge higher spreads for the same loan provision. I go on to consider what happens to this relationship during the financial crisis. During the crisis, banks more timely in loss recognition increase their spreads to a lesser extent than banks less timely in loss recognition. The policy implication is that banks more timely in loss recognition exhibit more prudent and less pro-cyclical debt pricing behaviour. The second empirical chapter examines the relationship between the value relevance of fair value gains and losses and bank risk in an international bank sample. One possibility is that, as risk increases, the scope for subjectivity in fair value estimates increases thereby potentially rendering the numbers less useful. However another possibility is that the relevance of faithfully reported fair value gains and losses increases as risk increases. The study provides evidence that the value relevance of fair value gains and losses is positively associated with bank risk prior to the crisis. During the crisis there is also evidence of a similar positive relationship, but it is not possible to draw firm conclusions for reasons discussed in the chapter. My research also shows that the fair value gains and losses of banks that elect to use the fair value option for assets that could have been accounted for using amortized costs are more value relevant and persistent. This study provides information to policy makers on the situations when fair values are most useful to investors. The third empirical chapter examines if the market rationally prices the loan loss provisions, and the reported fair value gains and losses of US banks. The chapter models the discretionary components of loan loss provisions and fair value gains and losses, and tests if the discretionary components are priced differently from their non-discretionary counterparts. The results provide little evidence that the market misprices operating cash flows, non-discretionary loan loss provisions, or fair value gains and losses (discretionary or otherwise). However there is evidence of significant mispricing of discretionary loan loss provisions. The lack of evidence on the mispricing of fair value gains and losses is consistent with the finding on the value relevance of fair value gains and losses in the second empirical chapter.

Download or read book Three Empirical Essays in Financial Economics and International Finance written by Marek Kolar and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays on Financial Accounting written by Sunyoung Kim and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on Empirical Financial Accounting written by Thomas Bourveau and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation is composed of three distinct chapters that empirically investigate various forms of decision-making by firms and/or managers in the field of empirical financial accounting. The first chapter presents a work joint with Francois Brochet and Sven Michael Spira, analyzing how the risk of securities lawsuit for investment-related reasons disciplines managers and reduce agency concerns with respect to investment. The second chapter examines how changes in labor regulation affect managers' incentives to manipulate earnings using other tools that are ultimately detrimental to firms. The third chapter, joint with Renaud Coulomb and Marc Sangnier, explores how political connections lead directors to engage in plausibly fraudulent insider trading in financial markets.

Download or read book Three essays on empirical finance written by Tse-Chun Lin and published by Rozenberg Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Empirical Accounting Research written by Tolga Davarcioglu and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays on Bank Accounting and Governance written by Mohamed Janahi and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays in Empirical Finance written by Micah S. Allred and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays on Empirical Finance written by Chao Wang and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays in Empirical Finance written by Chady Emile Gemayel and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first chapter of this dissertation, I show that firms strategically liquidate their growth options and reputational capital after loan covenant violations. Loan covenant violations increase creditors' relative bargaining power, shifting control rights towards debt holders. I use Amazon product metadata and product reviews in an event study framework to identify changes firms make to their product strategies after these violations. In the two quarters after new loan covenant violations, firms decrease both their product portfolio size and their product quality. I use product review text to show that firms actively reduce product quality by increasing the rate of product failure. These changes increase short-term cashflows, consistent with firms' decisions aligning with creditors' incentives. Violating firms apply these changes strategically within their product portfolios. After covenant violations, firms cull the set of products sold in product markets with more competitors and lower the quality of their less popular products. These strategic decisions reduce the long-term costs of changing product quality and product portfolio size. In the second chapter of this dissertation (with Nimesh Patel), we find that domestic firms invest in their reputational capital in response to increases in international competition. Specifically, American firms increase the quality of their products after positive Chinese import competition shocks. We determine that this is an active decision by identifying product level changes, finding significant reductions in the rate of product failures for domestic firms. Firms build reputational capital by increasing product quality, allowing them to differentiate their products from those of their competitors. We find that product portfolio size attenuates our results, consistent with less diversified firms having greater incentive to differentiate their products. In the third chapter of this dissertation, I study the effects of initial public offerings on product quality. Public firms, unlike private firms, are required to regularly disclose financial and business information. The relative lack of information on private firms that results from this regulatory difference makes quantifying how firms change as a result of going public difficult. I use Amazon product data spanning both private and public firms in an event study framework to identify a decrease in product quality after firms complete their initial public offerings. I find that the decrease in product quality after firms go public is driven by an increase in both the rate of negative brand recognition and the rate of negative customer service experiences.

Download or read book Essays in Empirical Financial Accounting written by Edward Michael Watts and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis studies several topical areas in empirical financial accounting. In the first chapter, I investigate whether investors are willing to trade off wealth for societal benefits. This chapter is co-authored with my co-advisor David F. Larcker and is forthcoming in the Journal of Accounting and Economics. In the second chapter, I examine how an increase in tick size affects algorithmic trading, fundamental information acquisition, and the price discovery process around earnings announcements. This chapter is co-authored with my co-advisor Charles M.C. Lee and is forthcoming in The Accounting Review. In the third chapter, I explore the growing market for startup employee equity using proprietary data from one of the largest of these marketplaces. This chapter is under revision for submission to a top accounting or finance journal.

Download or read book Essays in Empirical Financial Accounting written by Felix Franz Georg Urban and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays on Empirical Finance written by Yuki Sakasai and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Essays on Liquidity Risk and Banking Fragility Dynamic Depositor Discipline and Information Disclosure written by Fazelina Sahul Hamid and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis contains three empirical essays in banking. The empirical analyses focus on the role of information in banking. This will be done by analyzing the effectiveness of three types of signals that are sent by banks. The first signal is the CAMEL-type indicators that measure the soundness of the banks. The second signal is the price offered by banks in attracting deposits. The third signal is the amount of risk related information that banks disclose in their financial statements. This thesis aims to answer a few key questions that are relevant in banking. Firstly, it aims to find if CAMEL-type indicators are able to predict subsequent decisions by regulators to fail banks. This analysis will focus on the banks' liquidity ratio before and during crises in finding whether high liquidity holding and high reliance on external funding contribute towards the subsequent failure of the banks. Secondly, it aims to find if depositors discipline banks by focusing on depositors' reaction to the price signal from banks. Lastly, it aims to find if depositors react to the amount of risk-related information that banks disclose. The empirical issues are analyzed using the sample of financial institutions in five crisis led East Asian countries namely Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand. Among the striking findings in Chapter 2 are that the effect of liquidity on the probability of bank failure varies before and during a crisis. The results show the vulnerabilities of banks to failure declines as a result of higher liquidity holding. The results also show that banks' probability of failure increases as a result of high reliance on external funding. Findings in Chapter 3 confirm the endogenous relationship between the price and quantity of deposits in the depositor discipline model. Panel data analysis shows that depositors' behavior in East Asia is driven by bank fundamentals and risk aversion activities and also by price movements. Dynamic panel data analysis is carried out to account for the lagged dependency of the deposits growth variable and endogeneity of the price mechanism in the depositor discipline model. The results show that depositors in East Asia do not demand a higher price for deposits. Analysis by subdividing the sample of banks into healthy and weak banks shows that the relationship between price and quantity is not non-linear. Healthy banks are not able to attract more deposits by raising price. Depositors do not discipline weak banks by demanding a higher return. Lack of responsiveness by depositors to price signals may be attributable to large the outflow of deposits that happened during the crisis period and regulations on interest rates. Analysis in Chapter 4 confirms that depositors are influenced by the content and also quantity of risk-related information disclosure. Panel data analysis shows that higher risk-related information disclosure enables banks to attract more funds only during the post-crisis period. Once the lagged dependency of the deposits growth variable and endogeneity of the price and disclosure mechanism is taken into account, estimation using dynamic panel data analysis shows that disclosure is a more effective signal in attracting deposits than price. These findings provide support to the proposition of the third pillar of the Basel II which aims to encourage market discipline by requiring banks to disclose more risk-related information. In line with the wake-up-call hypothesis, the findings show that depositors' responsiveness to the amount of information disclosure is higher during the post-crisis period. This study also finds that the effectiveness of disclosure signal varies according to the quality of banks. Depositors in East Asia reward good banks for disclosing more information but they do not discipline weak banks by demanding greater disclosure. Greater responsiveness of depositors to the disclosure signal of healthy banks compared to weak banks implies that disclosure is a more effective signal for healthy banks than for weak ones. Other issues analyzed in the thesis pertain to the relevance of the different type of econometric analysis used in carrying out the empirical analyses.

Download or read book Empirical Essays on Strategic Behaviors written by Song Song and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays in Empirical Finance written by Caterina Forti Grazzini and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: