We survey research on financial accounting in the banking industry. After providing a brief background of the micro-economic theories of the economic role of banks, why bank capital is regulated, and how the accounting regime affects banks' economic decisions, we review three streams of...

We explore how an accounting measure of information asymmetry between lead and participating lenders influences syndication structures by examining whether lead lenders' commercial and industrial (C&I) loan loss provision validity affects the fraction of loans they retain. Consistent with C&I...

This paper examines the extent to which bank holding companies trade-off the use of investment securities and interest rate swaps when managing interest rate risk inherent in their core business. We find that both securities and swaps are used to hedge interest rate risk and that these two types...