How Does Financial Reporting Regulation Affect Firms’ Banking?

The Review of Financial Studies, Volume 31, Issue 4, 1 April 2018, Pages 1265-1297

95 Pages Posted: 25 Jul 2015 Last revised: 1 Jul 2018

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Matthias Breuer

Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Accounting, Business Law & Taxation

Katharina Hombach

Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt am Main

Maximilian A. Müller

University of Cologne

Date Written: September 14, 2017

Abstract

We examine the effects of financial reporting regulation on firms’ banking. Exploiting discontinuous public disclosure and auditing requirements assigned to otherwise similar small and medium-sized private firms, we document that financial reporting regulation reduces firms’ reliance on concentrated and local bank relationships and increases banks’ reliance on firms’ financial reporting, consistent with a shift in firms’ banking from relationship toward transactional approaches. Our evidence suggests that financial reporting regulation substitutes for banks’ information production role by burdening firms with the disclosure and auditing of their financial statements, consistent with institutional complementarities between reporting and banking systems.

Keywords: financial intermediation, financial reporting, public disclosure, auditing, competition

JEL Classification: M41, M48, G38

Suggested Citation

Breuer, Matthias and Hombach, Katharina and Müller, Maximilian A., How Does Financial Reporting Regulation Affect Firms’ Banking? (September 14, 2017). The Review of Financial Studies, Volume 31, Issue 4, 1 April 2018, Pages 1265-1297, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2635047 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2635047

Matthias Breuer (Contact Author)

Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Accounting, Business Law & Taxation ( email )

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Katharina Hombach

Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt am Main ( email )

Department of Finance
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Frankfurt, Hesse 60629
Germany

Maximilian A. Müller

University of Cologne ( email )

Albertus-Magnus-Platz
Cologne, 50923
Germany

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