Download This PaperCompetition and Bank Opacity
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Competition and Bank Opacity
Review of Financial Studies, forthcoming
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 11 Dec 2014
Last Revised: 12 Feb 2016
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Competition and Bank Opacity
Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research (HKIMR) Research Paper WP No. 05/2016, Published in The Review of Financial Studies, Volume 29, Issue 7, July 26
Number of pages: 48
Posted: 26 Apr 2016
Last Revised: 26 Sep 2023
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Date Written: December 2014
Abstract
Did regulatory reforms that lowered barriers to competition among U.S. banks increase or decrease the quality of information that banks disclose to the public and regulators? We find that an intensification of competition reduced abnormal accruals of loan loss provisions and the frequency with which banks restate financial statements. The results indicate that competition reduces bank opacity, enhancing the ability of markets and regulators to monitor banks.
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Jiang, Liangliang and Levine, Ross and Lin, Chen, Competition and Bank Opacity (December 2014). NBER Working Paper No. w20760, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2541536
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