This paper identifies tax and non-tax factors that influence commercial banks conversion from taxable C-corporation to nontaxable S-corporation from 1997 to 1999. A 1996 tax-law change allowed banks to elect S-corporation status for the first time. We find that banks are more likely to convert...

This paper examines whether firms benefit, in debt contracting, from committing to incorporate future GAAP changes (referred to as rolling GAAP) or not to incorporate any future changes (referred to as frozen GAAP). We show that informative future accounting changes do not necessarily improve...

We develop a model to show how shareholder-creditor agency conflicts interact with accounting measurement rules to influence the design of bank capital regulation. Relative to a benchmark autarkic regime, higher capital requirements mitigate inefficient asset substitution, but exacerbate...

Spanish Abstract: Las pymes son consideradas de vital importancia en todo tejido empresarial y, el acceso a la financiación es considerado uno de sus grandes problemas. Este artículo pretende identificar las fuentes y mecanismos de financiación en las pymes de Villavicencio, para establecer...

Private firms with relatively high costs of disclosure may benefit from a close relationship with a bank. Relationship lending is based on intertemporal contracting and requires the bank to acquire private information about the firm and, moreover, to keep this information private. For both...

The SEC regulates and standardizes information production in financial markets through financial reporting standards. With a novel dataset exploiting institutional features of the standard setting process. On average, standards increase aggregate market value by 0.93%, although discord among...

I examine banks' management of earnings through syndicated lending activities. This novel setting allows a transaction-specific, within-quarter analysis of real earnings management. My findings suggest that public lenders that narrowly beat earnings benchmarks, to book origination fees, initiate...

This article examines the consequences of accounting policy choices for individual banks' downside tail risk, for the codependence of such risk among banks, and for regulatory forbearance, or the decision by a regulator not to intervene. The author synthesizes recent research that provides...

This article examines the relationship between the amount of information disclosed by bank holding companies (BHCs) and the BHCs' subsequent risk-adjusted performance. Using data from the annual reports of BHCs with large trading operations, the author constructs an index that quantifies the...

Banks collect private information for the purpose of monitoring borrowers. However, we have little evidence on the sources of private information they use. This study investigates whether and how banks use private information about regulatory oversight of public disclosures through the SEC...