Hands in the Cookie Jar: Exploiting Loan Loss Provisions under Bank Financial Distress

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  • Malek El Diri
    University of Leeds
  • Timothy King
    University of Kent
  • Laima Spokeviciute
    Cardiff University
  • Jonathan Williams
We investigate earnings management (EM) behaviour at failed banks by examining the intensity and direction of EM around FDIC-insured commercial bank failures. Our empirical analysis indicates that failing banks engage in EM to a significantly greater extent than non-failing banks. Our results show that failing banks’ discretion over loan loss provisions ranges from aggressive (upwards EM) to conservative (downwards EM).

Keywords

  • Earnings Management, Bank failures, Banks
Original languageEnglish
Article number110098
JournalEconomics Letters
Volume209
Early online date6 Oct 2021
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Publication statusPublished - Dec 2021

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