HARESH SAPRA

Abstract (2005)

Guillaume Plantin, Hyun Song Shin, Haresh Sapra

Financial institutions have been at the forefront of the debate on the controversial shift in international standards from historical cost accounting to mark-to-market accounting. We show that the...

Should Intangibles Be Measured: What Are the Economic Trade-Offs?

CHANDRA KANODIA, HARESH SAPRA, RAGHU VENUGOPALAN

We investigate whether a firm's intangible investments should be measured and separated from operating expenses. We find that the information extracted from accounting reports of investments and...

Marking-to-Market: Panacea or Pandora's Box?

GUILLAUME PLANTIN, HARESH SAPRA, HYUN SONG SHIN

ABSTRACTFinancial institutions have been at the forefront of the debate on the controversial shift in international standards from historical cost accounting to mark-to-market accounting. We show...

Marking to Market, Liquidity, and Financial Stability

Plantin, Guillaume, Sapra, Haresh, Shin, Hyun-Song

This paper explores the financial stability implications of mark-to-market accounting, in particular its tendency to amplify financial cycles and the "reach for yield." Market prices play a dual...

Do accounting measurement regimes matter? A discussion of mark-to-market accounting and liquidity pricing

Sapra, Haresh

Using a model with banking and insurance sectors, Allen and Carletti show that marking-to-market interacts with liquidity pricing to exacerbate the likelihood of financial contagion between the two...

Accounting Conservatism and the Efficiency of Debt Contracts

FRANK GIGLER, CHANDRA KANODIA, HARESH SAPRA, RAGHU VENUGOPALAN

ABSTRACTIn this paper we examine how accounting conservatism affects the efficiency of debt contracting. We develop the statistical and informational properties of accounting reports under varying...