scholarly journals Service Output of Bank Holding Companies in the 1990s and the Role of Risk

Author(s):  
J. Christina Wang
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (02) ◽  
pp. 2050005
Author(s):  
DUNG VIET TRAN

Using a large sample of U.S. bank holding companies (BHC) from 2000:Q1–2017:Q4, we investigate the impacts of dividend policy to bank earnings management, and document that banks that pay dividends tend to be less opaque than banks that do not pay dividends. The dividend policy not only impacts the conditional average earnings management of banks, but also exerts influence on their dispersion. The impact of dividend policy appears to be more profound for highly opaque banks. We identify different conditions that motivate different discretionary behaviors of banks, which allows us to better observe different managerial motives between dividend-paying and dividend-non-paying banks. Under high information asymmetry context, there is valuably additional information conveyed by paying dividends, and it follows that the role of dividends as a means of conveying information is more pronounced. For banks subject to high agency problems, paying dividends make them to be less opaque through reducing the discretionary behaviors.


2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (57) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adolfo Barajas ◽  
Thomas Cosimano ◽  
Dalia Hakura ◽  
Sebastian Roelands ◽  
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2017 ◽  
Vol 107 (5) ◽  
pp. 603-607 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo T. Fernholz ◽  
Christoffer Koch

Starting in the 1990s, US bank assets grew more concentrated among a few large institutions. We explore the changing role of idiosyncratic volatility as a shaping force of the bank asset power law distribution. Our results reveal that idiosyncratic asset volatilities for bank-holding companies declined since the 1990s. To the extent that firm-specific shocks can have significant macroeconomic consequences, this result implies that even as one obvious source of aggregate risk and contagion--bank asset concentration--has increased, another important source--idiosyncratic volatility--has diminished.


2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adolfo Barajas ◽  
Thomas F. Cosimano ◽  
Dalia Hakura ◽  
Sebastian Roelands

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