Banks' Survival during the Financial Crisis: The Role of Regulatory Reporting Quality

• Main Authors: NG, Jeffrey, RUSTICUS, Tjomme O.
• 格式: text
• 語言: English
• 出版: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2012
• 主題: financial reporting transparency; corporate governance; financial crisis; Accounting; Business Law, Public Responsibility, and Ethics; Corporate Finance
• 在線閱讀: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soa_research/1007; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soa_research/article/2006/viewcontent/SSRN_id1892481.pdf

In this paper, we investigate the effect of bank transparency before the crisis on bank stability during the financial crisis that erupted in 2008. Using a large sample of private and public commercial banks in the United States, we find that transparency enhances stability. We use two measures of t...