The implication of unrecognized asset value on the relation between market valuation and debt valuation adjustment

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Cedergren, Matthew C.; Chen, Changling; Chen, Kai
• 署名单位: University of Pennsylvania; University of Waterloo; Wilfrid Laurier University
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ACCOUNTING STUDIES
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1380-6653
• DOI: 10.1007/s11142-019-9486-2
• 发表日期: 2019
• 页码: 426-455
• 关键词: rating changes; income; DISCLOSURES; relevance; banks

摘要

Under SFAS No. 159, U.S. firms can measure debt liabilities at fair value, which results in recognition of unrealized gains and losses from debt valuation adjustments (DVA) when a firm's own credit risk changes. Critics have raised concerns about the counterintuitive income consequences of DVA; that is, when a firm's credit risk increases (i.e., bad news), debt values decrease, and resulting DVA gains increase the firm's income (i.e., good news), and vice versa. In this paper, we examine the relation between market valuation and DVA gains and losses, conditioning on the level of unrecognized asset value (UAV). We develop a model to demonstrate the mitigating effect of UAV on the relation between equity returns and DVA. We show that, while the association between equity returns and DVA is positive when the level of UAV is low, the association decreases and eventually turns negative with increasing levels of UAV.