{"title":"Bank Financial Distress and Stock Price Crashes: A Quasi-Experimental Approach","authors":"Priti Biswas, Debasish Maitra, Sayantan Mukherjee","doi":"10.1111/eufm.12529","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div>\n \n <p>Using 118,292 US bank-month observations, we examine the effects of short-term changes in bank's financial distress on stock price crash risk. There is a significant positive association between short-term changes in distress on stock price crash risk. The results remain consistent across alternative measures of distress and crash risk. We confirm robustness by employing additional tests for reverse causality and propensity score matching. We find opacity, proxied by discretionary loan-loss provisions to be a potential channel through which increase in distress affects future crash risk. Our study underscores the critical association between increasing financial distress, loan-loss reporting, and crash risk.</p>\n </div>","PeriodicalId":47815,"journal":{"name":"European Financial Management","volume":"31 3","pages":"1103-1123"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1000,"publicationDate":"2024-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"European Financial Management","FirstCategoryId":"96","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eufm.12529","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"BUSINESS, FINANCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Using 118,292 US bank-month observations, we examine the effects of short-term changes in bank's financial distress on stock price crash risk. There is a significant positive association between short-term changes in distress on stock price crash risk. The results remain consistent across alternative measures of distress and crash risk. We confirm robustness by employing additional tests for reverse causality and propensity score matching. We find opacity, proxied by discretionary loan-loss provisions to be a potential channel through which increase in distress affects future crash risk. Our study underscores the critical association between increasing financial distress, loan-loss reporting, and crash risk.
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European Financial Management publishes the best research from around the world, providing a forum for both academics and practitioners concerned with the financial management of modern corporation and financial institutions. The journal publishes signficant new finance research on timely issues and highlights key trends in Europe in a clear and accessible way, with articles covering international research and practice that have direct or indirect bearing on Europe.