Tittle: Opaque Bank Assets and Optimal Equity Capital
Speaker: Prof Min DAI, National University of Singapore
Date: 2016/05/12, Thursday, 4:00-5:00 PM
Venue: 览秀楼205
Abstract: Banks'''''''' assets are opaque and, therefore, we model their accounting asset
values as partially observed variables that have a static uncertainty term.
We derive a stochastic control model for this situation and calibrate that to a sample of
U.S. banks. Under the calibrated model, the banks have incentive to add noise to the
reported accounting asset values and smooth their asset values to hide their solvency
risk from banking regulators. The partially observed model explains the banks'''''''' realized
dividends and equity market values significantly better than the corresponding fully
observed model, indicating that the banks consider the accounting noise and its benefits
when optimizing their equity capital level. Further, due to the substantial shock on the
asset values, the banks'''''''' assets were more opaque during the recent financial crisis than
outside that.
This is a joint work with Jussi Keppo and Shan Huang.
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