Degree
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Accounting
Document Type
Dissertation
Abstract
The 2010 Dodd-Frank Act (DF) created asset size thresholds associated with considerable costs. Avoidance of these thresholds has changed the distribution of banks and created a discontinuity around $10 billion in total assets. The thresholds create incentives for managers below the thresholds to stifle asset growth. This study examines loan sales and securitizations, marketable securities, and the allowance for loan losses account as methods of slowing growth, and also tests for unintended consequences of suboptimal asset shifting on risk, regulatory ratings, and earnings quality. Results demonstrate that post DF, slow growing private financial institutions (FIs) just below the threshold increase the asset held-to-maturity securities, while public FIs show loan increases. Public FI just below the threshold post-DF have higher credit quality and liquidity risk, and lower accruals quality, and their private counterparts have lower credit quality and lower liquidity risk. This study contributes to the literature on the earnings quality, regulatory ratings, ownership structure, and methods of slow growth for financial institutions.
Date
8-3-2018
Recommended Citation
Alford, Laura Camille, "Unintended Consequences of the Dodd-Frank $10 Billion Asset Size Threshold" (2018). LSU Doctoral Dissertations. 4688.
https://repository.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/4688
Committee Chair
Hollie, Dana
DOI
10.31390/gradschool_dissertations.4688