Rayman
(2007) concludes that fair value accounting is liable to produce absurdities and
misleading information, if it isbased on expectations that turn out to be false. In the
same vein, Liang and Wen (2007) are critical with the beneficial effects of moving to
fair valuation because it inherits more managerial manipulation and induce less efficient
investment decisions than cost valuations. Plantin and Sapra (forthcoming) conclude
that, when there are imperfections in the market, there is the danger of the emergence of
an additional source of volatility as a consequence of fairvaluation, and thus a rapid
shift to full mark-to-market regime may be detrimental to financial intermediation and
therefore to economic growth. On the contrary, Bleck and Liu (2007) found that historic
cost accounting makes easier to hinder bad investment projects, prevents from
liquidating them, therefore accumulating volatilityto hit the market at a later date and
produce crash prices, increasing overall volatility and reducing efficiency (i.e. reducing
profitability) with respect to market valuation. Gigler etal. (2006) concluded that even
in the case of mixed attribute report (i.e., someitems are valued at market while others
are carried at historical cost), fair value performs better: it provides stronger signals of
financial distress. All these previous mentioned studies are analytical and mainly use
mathematical models. However, to our knowledge, there are few empirical studies
contrasting hypotheses on these issues. Hann etal. (2007) found empirical evidence of
fair-value pension accounting not improving the informativeness of the financial
statements and even impairing it. Slightly related to these issues, Beaver et al. (2005)
found a small decline in the ability of financial ratios topredict bankruptcy from 1962
to 2002, and an incremental explanatory powerof market-related variables over this
period. They explain the deterioration of predictive ability of financial ratios in terms of
an insufficient improvement of FASB standards.
Rayman
(2007) concludes that fair value accounting is liable to produce absurdities and
misleading information, if it isbased on expectations that turn out to be false. In the
same vein, Liang and Wen (2007) are critical with the beneficial effects of moving to
fair valuation because it inherits more managerial manipulation and induce less efficient
investment decisions than cost valuations. Plantin and Sapra (forthcoming) conclude
that, when there are imperfections in the market, there is the danger of the emergence of
an additional source of volatility as a consequence of fairvaluation, and thus a rapid
shift to full mark-to-market regime may be detrimental to financial intermediation and
therefore to economic growth. On the contrary, Bleck and Liu (2007) found that historic
cost accounting makes easier to hinder bad investment projects, prevents from
liquidating them, therefore accumulating volatilityto hit the market at a later date and
produce crash prices, increasing overall volatility and reducing efficiency (i.e. reducing
profitability) with respect to market valuation. Gigler etal. (2006) concluded that even
in the case of mixed attribute report (i.e., someitems are valued at market while others
are carried at historical cost), fair value performs better: it provides stronger signals of
financial distress. All these previous mentioned studies are analytical and mainly use
mathematical models. However, to our knowledge, there are few empirical studies
contrasting hypotheses on these issues. Hann etal. (2007) found empirical evidence of
fair-value pension accounting not improving the informativeness of the financial
statements and even impairing it. Slightly related to these issues, Beaver et al. (2005)
found a small decline in the ability of financial ratios topredict bankruptcy from 1962
to 2002, and an incremental explanatory powerof market-related variables over this
period. They explain the deterioration of predictive ability of financial ratios in terms of
an insufficient improvement of FASB standards.
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