Regulatory pressure and income smoothing by banks in response to anticipated changes to the Basel II Accord

We examine the effects of the revised Basel II rules on bank managers’ discretionary behavior, specifically income smoothing and loan loss provisioning. As the revised rules exert greater regulatory pressure on corporate than retail banking, we predict corporate bank managers to reduce risk-taking a...

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Main Authors: LIM, Chu Yeong, OW YONG, Kevin
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Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
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Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soa_research_all/1
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=soa_research_all
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English