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Author:Wall, Larry D. 

Journal Article
Deregulation and the opportunities for commercial bank diversification

Economic Review , Issue Sep , Pages 1-25

Working Paper
The use of accruals to manage reported earnings: theory and evidence

This paper develops a model in which firm managers maximize their own compensation by using accruals to manage reported earnings. The results of the model suggest that the form of the managerial compensation function and managerial time preferences may have an important influence on the relationship between accruals and latent earnings. Among the possible relationships suggested by the model are strategies we call Smooth Income, Occasional Big Bath, Live for Today, and Maximize Variability, each of which suggests a different reporting strategy pursued by managers. Most empirical tests of ...
FRB Atlanta Working Paper , Paper 2000-23

Discussion Paper
Assisting Firms during a Crisis: Benefits and Costs

Public and private efforts to reduce COVID-19 infection levels have led to a sharp drop in economic activity around the world. In an attempt to mitigate the damage to businesses, governments around the world have implemented a variety of financial programs to help firms. These programs have been criticized as interfering with markets, providing bailouts, and creating adverse incentives. In this article, I review both the rationale for government-provided assistance and the costs of providing that assistance from the perspective of how that aid effects the likely level and volatility of ...
Policy Hub , Paper 2020-10

Working Paper
Valuation effects of new capital issues by large bank holding companies

FRB Atlanta Working Paper , Paper 88-7

Conference Paper
The last frontier: the integration of banking and commerce in the U.S.

Proceedings , Paper 1046

Conference Paper
The impact of a dealer's failure on OTC derivatives market liquidity during volatile periods

Proceedings , Paper 555

Working Paper
Bank capital ratios across countries: why do they vary?

This paper extends the literature on bank capital structure by modeling capital structure as a function of important public policy and bank regulatory characteristics of the home country, as well as of bank-specific variables, country-level macroeconomic conditions, and country-level financial characteristics. The model is estimated with annual data from 1992 to 2005 for an unbalanced panel of the seventy-eight largest private banks in the world headquartered in twelve industrial countries. The results indicate that bank capital ratios are significantly affected in the hypothesized directions ...
FRB Atlanta Working Paper , Paper 2008-27

Journal Article
Capital requirements for interest-rate and foreign-exchange hedges

Economic Review , Issue May , Pages 14-28

Working Paper
The devil's in the tail: residential mortgage finance and the U.S. Treasury

This paper seeks to contribute to the U.S. housing finance reform conversation by providing a critical assessment of the various types of policy proposals that have been offered. There appears to be a broad consensus to maintain explicit government guarantees for certain narrowly defined borrower populations, such as Federal Housing Administration insurance guarantees for low- and moderate-income and first-time homebuyers. However, the expected role of the federal government in the broader housing finance system is in dispute. The expected role ranges from no role to insuring against only ...
FRB Atlanta Working Paper , Paper 2012-12

Working Paper
Measuring capital adequacy supervisory stress tests in a Basel world

The United States is now committed to using two relatively sophisticated approaches to measuring capital adequacy: Basel III and stress tests. This paper shows how stress testing could mitigate weaknesses in the way Basel III measures credit and interest rate risk, the way it measures bank capital, and the way it creates countercyclical capital buffers. However, this paper also emphasizes the extent to which stress tests add value will depend upon the exercise of supervisor discretion in the design of stress scenarios. Whether supervisors will use this discretion more effectively than they ...
FRB Atlanta Working Paper , Paper 2013-15

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