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The Use Of Loan Loss Provisions For Earnings, Capital Management And Signalling By Australian Banks, Asokan Anandarajan, Iftekhar Hasan, Cornelia Mccarthy
The Use Of Loan Loss Provisions For Earnings, Capital Management And Signalling By Australian Banks, Asokan Anandarajan, Iftekhar Hasan, Cornelia Mccarthy
CRIF Working Paper series
This research is motivated by the fact that there is a paucity of research on the earnings management practices of banks in Australia. Research on the practices of North American, European and Asian banks provided conflicting evidence. In this study, we examine whether Australian banks engage in earnings, capital management and signalling, and, if so, the extent to which loan loss provisions (LLPs) are used for this purpose. Our results indicate that banks in Australia use loan loss provisions to manage earnings. Further, listed commercial banks engage more aggressively in earnings management using LLPs than other banks. We also find …
Uncovered Interest-Rate Parity Over The Past Two Centuries, James R. Lothian, Liuren Wu
Uncovered Interest-Rate Parity Over The Past Two Centuries, James R. Lothian, Liuren Wu
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We study the validity of uncovered interest-rate parity (UIP) by constructing ultra long time series that span two centuries. The forward-premium regressions yield positive slope estimates over the whole sample period and become negative only when the sample is dominated by the period of 1980s. We also find that large interest-rate differentials have significantly stronger forecasting powers for currency movements than small interest-rate differentials. Furthermore, when we regress domestic currency returns on foreign bonds against returns on domestic bonds as an alternative test for UIP, the null hypotheses of zero intercept and unit slope cannot be rejected in most cases. …
Institutions, Capital Flows And Financial Integration, James R. Lothian
Institutions, Capital Flows And Financial Integration, James R. Lothian
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The central focus of this paper is on capital flows from developed to less developed countries and in particular on the question of why such flows are not much larger. I first outline the theoretical arguments with regard to such flows and then go on to review the historical evidence on international financial integration more generally. I then turn to the related literature on economic development, which over the past decade has shifted its emphasis from technology and capital accumulation per se to the underlying institutional factors that affect investment. I present evidence that such factors also affect to rich-to-poor …
The Role Of Earnings And Book Values In Pricing Stocks: Evidence From Turkey, Asokan Anandarajan, Iftekhar Hasan, Ihsan Isik, Cornelia Mccarthy
The Role Of Earnings And Book Values In Pricing Stocks: Evidence From Turkey, Asokan Anandarajan, Iftekhar Hasan, Ihsan Isik, Cornelia Mccarthy
CRIF Working Paper series
In this study, we examine factors associated with equity valuation in a newly emerging market, Turkey. In the United States and other developed countries, research indicates that both earnings and book value are important predictors of equity valuation. In Turkey, earnings appears to have information content but earnings, by itself, appears to be declining in importance over time. Book value adjusted for inflation has a stronger association with equity values. In the inflationary and risky environment of Turkey, where future value of earnings is quite uncertain, investors may be paying less attention to earnings and more attention to book values. …