Does fair value accounting provide a better representation of a company?

Fair Value Accounting for Liabilities and Own Credit Risk

Changes in credit risk may arise when either the value or the risk of corporate assets changes. Changes in the equity value associated with the changes in the asset value and changes in asset risk can be characterized into potentially countervailing direct and indirect effects. The indirect effect of risk on equity value is a function of factors that affect the debt value of including leverage,...

Fair-Value Accounting for Federal Credit Programs

The federal government supports some private activities—such as home ownership, postsecondary education, and certain commercial ventures—through credit assistance offered to individuals and businesses. Some of that assistance is in the form of direct federal loans, and some is through federal guarantees of loans made by private financial institutions. At the end of fiscal year 2011, about $2.7 ...

Does Fair Value Accounting Exacerbate the Pro-cyclicality of Bank Lending?

This paper examines whether fair value accounting increases the pro-cyclicality of banks’ lending behavior. Exploiting cross-sectional variation in individual banks’ exposure to fair value accounting, I find that fair value accounting does not exacerbate the pro-cyclicality of bank lending over the past two business cycles during 1995-2010. This result holds despite the fact that every one doll...

fair value accounting for liabilities and own credit risk

changes in credit risk may arise when either the value or the risk of corporate assets changes. changes in the equity value associated with the changes in the asset value and changes in asset risk can be characterized into potentially countervailing direct and indirect effects. the indirect effect of risk on equity value is a function of factors that affect the debt value of including leverage,...

Appendix to “ Does Fair Value Accounting Exacerbate the Procyclicality of Bank Lending ? ”