Determinants of bank income smoothing using loan loss provisions in the United Kingdom

Determinants of Commercial Bank Automobile Loan Rates

Are the Loan Loss and Fair Value Components of Bank Income Rationally Priced?

This paper examines if the market rationally prices the loan loss provisions, and the fair value gains and losses of US banks. We also model the discretionary components of loan loss provisions and fair value gains and losses, and test if the discretionary components are priced differently from their non-discretionary counterparts. We find little evidence that the market misprices operating cas...

Retirement income security in the United Kingdom.

This article examines the U.K. retirement income security system from the American perspective. It addresses issues that most concern U.S. analysts: how the United Kingdom has kept its future public pension costs at a manageable level, the extent to which privatization of public pensions has contributed to low pension costs, the popular appeal of individual pension accounts, and the impact of p...

The Signalling Effects of Bank Loan-loss Reserve Additions

This study examines the market’s reaction to announcements of additions to the Loan Loss Reserve (LLR) account resulting from diverse problems in a bank’s loan portfolio which are unrelated to an international debt crisis. For the overall sample, with no division by type of loan, the reaction to an increase in LLRs is negative and statistically significant before the announcement; however, it t...

ACCOUNTING WORKSHOP “Using Loan Loss Indicators by Loan Type to Sharpen the Evaluation of the Determinants and Implications of Banks’ Loan Loss Accruals”

We show that the determinants and economic implications of the primary loan loss indicators reported in financial reports—non-performing loans (NPL), the allowance and provision for loan losses (ALL and PLL), and net loan charge-offs (NLCO)—vary dramatically across real estate, commercial, and consumer loan types, because these types differ in their homogeneity and collateralization and thus in...