How Do Fair Value Measurements of Financial Instruments Affect Investments in Banks?

MicroLevel Barriers to Using Fair Value in Financial Reporting of Iranian Banks

Changing the measurement basis from historical to fair value is one of the most important developments in IFRS. The wide dimensions of fair value measurement in the banking industry, requires carefull examination of the obstacles and effects of using this basis before implementation. in addition to the characteristics of the macroeconomic environment, the different banking business framework an...

How Do Financial Systems Affect Economic Performance

This paper examines the relation between financial, corporate and legal systems, and economic performance in different countries. It reviews international comparisons that undertake detailed analyses of individual, developed countries and studies that use large, cross-country data banks, including developing countries. While the former do not provide evidence of a clear relation between differe...

ACCOUNTING FOR FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS FOR BANKS Joint Working Group of Banking Associations on Financial Instruments

Instruments to Mitigate Financial Risk in Indian Renewable Energy Investments

Based on these targets, and assuming that these targets will be met in a linear fashion (i.e., equal capacity installation per year), using forecasted costs of renewable technologies, this would require approximately $189 billion of additional investment, including $132 billion of debt and $57 billion of equity. Among technologies, solar energy would require approximately $131 billion, wind ene...

Corporate Finance When Monetary Policy Tightens: How Do Banks and Non-banks Affect Access to Credit?

The evolving financial environment facing the corporate sector provides many non-bank external finance options as an alternative to bank finance and this paper examines the relationship between UK firms’ choices over bank versus non-bank finance under different monetary conditions. We look at the external finance 'mix' using a panel of 16,000 UK firm records taken from the FAME database for the...