Banks' Financial Reporting and Financial System Stability

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Acharya, Viral V.; Ryan, Stephen G.
• 署名单位: New York University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTING RESEARCH
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-8456
• DOI: 10.1111/1475-679X.12114
• 发表日期: 2016
• 页码: 277-340
• 关键词: business-cycle; RISK; securitization; IMPACT; transmission; insurance; liquidity; losses; CRISIS; assets

摘要

The use of accounting measures and disclosures in banks' contracts and regulation suggests that the quality of banks' financial reporting is central to the efficacy of market discipline and nonmarket mechanisms in limiting banks' development of debt and risk overhangs in economic good times and in mitigating the adverse consequences of those overhangs for the stability of the financial system in downturns. This essay examines how research on banks' financial reporting, informed by the financial economics literature on banking, can generate insights about how to enhance the stability of the financial system. We begin with a foundational discussion of how aspects of banks' accounting and disclosures may affect stability. We then evaluate representative papers in the empirical literature on banks' financial reporting and stability, pointing out the research design issues that empirical accounting researchers need to confront to develop well-specified tests able to generate reliably interpretable findings. To this end, we provide examples of settings amenable to addressing these issues. We conclude with considerations for accounting standard setters and financial system policy makers.