Earnings conservatism and litigation exposure in the banking industry / Conservadurismo del resultado y riesgo de litigio en el sector bancario

This paper examines the effect of managers' liability exposure on earnings conservatism in the banking industry. Focusing on a wide international sample of commercial banks and using TIER1 as a proxy of bank managers' exposure to litigation, our results show a negative relationship between...

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description This paper examines the effect of managers' liability exposure on earnings conservatism in the banking industry. Focusing on a wide international sample of commercial banks and using TIER1 as a proxy of bank managers' exposure to litigation, our results show a negative relationship between the level of TIER1 and earnings conservatism. We interpret these results as evidence of an increase in bank managers' liability exposure increasing earnings conservatism. Moreover, we find that this negative relationship holds for both, those banks with a TIER1 below the median country level of TIERl (low-TIERl banks) and those with aTIERl above the median country level ofTIERl (high-TIERl banks), even though it is less pronounced for the former group. Thus, although it is expected that higher public scrutiny scenarios in the banking industry (low-TIERl banks) trigger a higher degree of unconditional conservatism, they do not prevent managers from resorting to earnings conservatism in an attempt to minimize not only litigation costs but also the likelihood of adverse political action. Este trabajo examina el efecto del riesgo de litigio de los directivos sobre el conservadurismo contable en el sector bancário. A partir de una amplia muestra internacional de bancos comerciales, y empleando el TIER1 como subrogado de la exposición de los directivos bancários al riesgo de litigo, nuestros resultados muestran una relación negativa entre el nivel de TIER1 y el conservadurismo condicional. Interpretamos estos resultados como evidencia de que un incremento en la exposición al riesgo de litigio por parte de los gestores bancários incrementa el conservadurismo condicional. Además, encontramos que esta relación negativa se mantiene tanto para los bancos con TIER1 por debajo de la mediana de TIER1 del país (bancos low-TIERl) como para los que presentan un TIER1 por encima de la mediana del país (bancos high-TIERl), aunque la relación es menos pronunciada para el primer grupo. Así pues, aunque se espera que un escenario de mayor escrutinio público (bancos low-TIERl) suponga un mayor grado de conservadurismo no condicional, ello no impide que los gestores recurran al conservadurismo condicional en un intento de minimizar, no solo los costes de litigio, sino también la probabilidad de una acción política adversa.
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Bank failures
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Economic crisis
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